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But whatever lives or dies, business must be attended to; and the principal business of good Christians is, beyond all controversy, to fight with one another.

— R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1869)

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Women who are (beyond all doubt) the mothers of all mischief, also nurse that babe to sleep, when he is too noisy.

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Too late we know the good from bad; the knowledge is no pleasure then; being memory's medicine rather than the wine of hope.

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It is the manner of all good boys to be careless of apparel, and take no pride in adornment.

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“Now let us bandy words no more,” said mother, very sweetly; “nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.”

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The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.

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