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— Margaret Oliphant"Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others."
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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