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My friends are my 'estate.' Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

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  1. Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires a sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host Who t…
  2. 'Faith' is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see - But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
  3. 'Hope' is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweete…
  4. I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - Too?
  5. How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell one's name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!
  6. The Soul selects her own Society - Then - shuts the Door - To her divine Majority - Present no more -
  7. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - I keep it, staying at Home- With a Bobolink for a Chorister - And an Orchard, for a Dome-
  8. God preaches, a noted Clergyman - And the sermon is never long, So instead of getting to Heaven, at last- I'm going, all along.

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