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• My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
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• Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea!
  How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea!...
• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort....