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  1. The pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the j…
  2. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his A…
  3. My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substanti…
  4. It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so…
  5. The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a n…
  6. The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny a…
  7. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, …
  8. To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are ab…

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