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P. Brooks. . Call your opinions your creed, and you will
P. Brooks. . Idleness in the midst of unattempted tasks is always proud.
P. Desjardins. . Goodness is everywhere, and is everywhere to be found, if we will only look for it.
P. G. Hamerton. . The best independence is to have something to
P. G. Hamerton. . The manners of the ill-mannered are never so odious, unbearable, exasperating, as they are to their own nearest kindred.
P. J. Bailey. . He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
P. J. Bailey. . He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
P. J. Bailey. . Let every thought too, soldier-like, be
P. J. Bailey. . Man is a military animal, / Glories in gunpowder
P. J. Bailey. . Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the last
 
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Conhydrine : n. A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev. James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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