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  David Kjelkerud highlighted

  My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms—the refusal was all I wanted—but I never got my fingers burned by actual possession.

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  What is a house but a sedes, a seat?—better if a country seat. I discovered many a site for a house not likely to be soon improved, which some might have thought too far

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  Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them

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  What I have heard of Bramins sitting exposed to four fires and looking in the face of the sun; or hanging suspended, with their heads downward, over flames;

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  The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

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    Christoffer Klang

    Beautiful

    4 months ago
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    Aaron Kelly

    Nice.

    4 months ago
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  David Kjelkerud highlighted

  But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

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  I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

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