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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
I wear the chain I forged in life.
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This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.
A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there.
Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
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