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  1. I feel the desire to be with you all the time. Oh, an occasional absence of a week or two is a good thing to give one the happiness of meet…
  2. I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I…
  3. As to Mr. Lincoln's name and fame and memory, - all is safe. His firmness, moderation, goodness of heart; his quaint humor, his perfect hon…
  4. I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it …
  5. While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, it will ce…
  6. My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad.... But let your words and conduct be perfectly pure - su…
  7. Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.
  8. I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for…

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