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Life's span With equal foot , rich friend , impartial Fate Knocks at the cottage , and the palace gate : forbids thee to extend thy cares , And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years : Night soon will seize , and you must quickly go To ...
Life's span With equal foot , rich friend , impartial Fate Knocks at the cottage , and the palace gate : forbids thee to extend thy cares , And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years : Night soon will seize , and you must quickly go To ...
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As for the revival of this false wit , it happened about the time of the revival of letters ; but as soon as it was once detected , it immediately vanished and disappeared . At the same time there is no question , but as it has sunk in ...
As for the revival of this false wit , it happened about the time of the revival of letters ; but as soon as it was once detected , it immediately vanished and disappeared . At the same time there is no question , but as it has sunk in ...
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For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or silver , but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an exuberant love to ...
For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or silver , but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an exuberant love to ...
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Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveler , who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on . Kindness effects more than Severity . BELLING THE CAT LONG ago , the Mice held a general council to consider what ...
Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveler , who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on . Kindness effects more than Severity . BELLING THE CAT LONG ago , the Mice held a general council to consider what ...
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The Hare darted almost out of sight at once , but soon stopped and , to show his contempt for the Tortoise , lay down to have a nap . The Tortoise plodded on and plodded on , and when the Hare awoke from his nap , he saw the Tortoise ...
The Hare darted almost out of sight at once , but soon stopped and , to show his contempt for the Tortoise , lay down to have a nap . The Tortoise plodded on and plodded on , and when the Hare awoke from his nap , he saw the Tortoise ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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