In London they no longer say, "Lend me your purse--but your name."

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A painter's description of matrimony--

Introduction: the background.
Courtship: the middle ground.
Engagement: the foreground.
Marriage: the nude subject.

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Kruger is the epitome of obsolete ideas and living force.

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A bleating lamb in a great city is in greater danger than in the darkest
wood.

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There be three birds.

One lives only in the highest altitudes.

This bird is Truth.

One lives on the plain.