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Charles Caleb Colton Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Charles Caleb Colton If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
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Charles Caleb Colton In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
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Charles Caleb Colton All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
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Charles Caleb Colton Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Charles Dickens Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
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Charles Dickens Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
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Charles Dickens Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.