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» I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

» My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

» So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.

» What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

» And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

» The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.

» A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.

» I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

» I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

» It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

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