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— James Russell Lowell"There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking."
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How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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