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One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
Age: 61 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 20
Died: 1867
Died: January 20
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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The taste forever refines in the study of women.
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
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A lamp is lit in woman's eye that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.
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