Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

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I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs,— give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen.

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Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.

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