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...conversely. As none of us have ever passed our summer vacations at the North Pole, shall we enjoy having days twenty-four hours long and no nights? Our morning naps will be impossible...
...room has none...
...intends to be, - a society of good fellowship among good men for doing good work. This opportunity was thrown away. Some changes were made, but, according to the confession of some of the officers themselves, meaningless changes. After the long discussion, the society remains as exclusive as ever. None but those who can conscientiously subscribe to certain dogmas can be members of the society, according to the final decision of the last meeting...
...every one is reported as carrying two wallets, - one at his back, filled with his own faults, the other in front, loaded with the faults of others. The letter-box - or, if you please, the lamp-post - wears its wallet but in front. Faults of its own it has none; but when does it fail to bear the burden of others' mistakes? And do not tell me it is but a senseless object. No, take my word, it broods over all these secrets that are trustfully committed to its keeping; it ponders anxiously over the remedy to be applied here...
...None could with her compare...