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A House-Boat on the Styx

CHAPTER III: WASHINGTON GIVES A DINNER
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But G.
W.here took it in hand, groomed it down, spanked it when it needed it, and started it off on the career which has made it worth while for me to let my name be known in connection with it.

Why should I be jealous of him ?" "I am sure I don't know why anybody anywhere should be jealous of anybody else anyhow," said Diogenes.

"I never was and I never expect to be.
Jealousy is a quality that is utterly foreign to the nature of an honest man.

Take my own case, for instance.

When I was what they call alive, how did I live ?" "I don't know," said Doctor Johnson, turning his head as he spoke so that Boswell could not fail to hear.


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