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... person of the tracts , the very best of them , translated into the ordinary cold - hearted religionist , who always looks after his own comfort , and whose words are fire while his deeds are ice , has done more harm to the faith than ...
... person of the tracts , the very best of them , translated into the ordinary cold - hearted religionist , who always looks after his own comfort , and whose words are fire while his deeds are ice , has done more harm to the faith than ...
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... persons who could not conduce to its amusement or comfort . Catherine pushed it away impatiently ; she did not want to read in black and white what she knew so well already - what she had always to read in the black and white of day and ...
... persons who could not conduce to its amusement or comfort . Catherine pushed it away impatiently ; she did not want to read in black and white what she knew so well already - what she had always to read in the black and white of day and ...
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... generous , self - sacrificing , good , and loving ; and that very few persons feel their positions more acutely than the poor ladies themselves . And perhaps , as midges sting and gnats bite with ( 35 ) THE WIFE'S MOTHER.
... generous , self - sacrificing , good , and loving ; and that very few persons feel their positions more acutely than the poor ladies themselves . And perhaps , as midges sting and gnats bite with ( 35 ) THE WIFE'S MOTHER.
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... persons that the world can witness ; and this must be more especially felt in days of warm home - feelings . " He who has to fill a pond , " said Lord Bacon , in one of his essays wherein acute thought is illustrated by homely sayings ...
... persons that the world can witness ; and this must be more especially felt in days of warm home - feelings . " He who has to fill a pond , " said Lord Bacon , in one of his essays wherein acute thought is illustrated by homely sayings ...
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... persons who deserve very much what has been so widely said against the class , and who render many a home the scene of the most irritating dis- comfort . The mother - in - law , say the ill - natured ones , has , about the time that her ...
... persons who deserve very much what has been so widely said against the class , and who render many a home the scene of the most irritating dis- comfort . The mother - in - law , say the ill - natured ones , has , about the time that her ...
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