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"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"I started skating when I was six years old."
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"There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors."
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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"I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
Slavery
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
Nature
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
Life
"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."
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"Death is better than slavery."
Death
"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
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"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."
Family
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
God
"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."
Power
"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."
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