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--_Tennyson_.
5. All those things for which men plow, build, or sail obey
virtue.--_Sallust_.
6. The sea licks your feet, its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you;
but it will crack your bones and eat you for all that.--_Holmes_.
7. Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: "It might have
been."--_Whittier_.
8. I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
--_Napoleon_.
9. He that allows himself to be a worm must not complain if he is trodden
on.--_Kant_.
10. It is better to write one word upon the rock than a thousand on the
water or the sand.--_Gladstone_.
11. A breath of New England's air is better than a sup of Old England's
ale.--_Higginson_.
12. We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.--_Sir H. Gilbert_.
13. No language that cannot suck up the feeding juices secreted for it in
the rich mother-earth of common folk can bring forth a sound and lusty
book.--_Lowell_.
14. Commend me to the preacher who has learned by experience what are human
ills and what is human wrong.--_Boyd_.
15. He prayeth best who loveth best all things both [Footnote: See Lesson
20.] great and small; for the dear God, who loveth us, he made and
loveth all.--_Coleridge_.
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LESSON 82.


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