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• ... and oftener changed their principles than their shirts. -- Dr. Young
• The shipwrecked mariner had spent several years on a deserted island.
  Then one morning he was thrilled to see a ship offshore and a smaller vessel pulling out toward him....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ea
  oft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony....
• Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
  Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramid...
• While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
  Our birth is nothing but our death begun....
• BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
  The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall....