pends on the mood in which we maintain our surroundings
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Producing a news as though it were stale.—Many seen irritated when they are informed of a news; they realise the ascendency which the news gives to him who knows it first.
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There are the final limits of our “eggo"?—The majority take a fact which they know under their special protection, just as if the knowledge thereof were sufficient to make it their own. The egoity's desire of appropriation is boundless: great men speak in such a manner as if they had outrun all ages and were the head of this long body; and good women glorify in the beauty of their children, their dresses, their dog, their physician, their town; and the only thing they are afraid of saying is, "All that, I am." Chi non ha, non é , goes the Italian saying.
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Domestic and pet animals and the like.—Can we conceive anything more repulsive than the sentimental affection shown to plants and animals—on the part of a creature who from the very first raged amongst then as their fiercest enemy and finishes by even claiming