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Once I wished not to live, but the faculty of life seems to have sprung up in me again, from under the crushing foot of heavy grief.
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In our sorrow we see the rough side of the stuff; in our joys the smooth; and who shall say that when the taffeta is turned the most silk may not be in the sorrows?
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we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection
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Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.