The Opium Question
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would have been expressed in fewer words! Another gentleman with true military fortiter in re friendship, told me my pamphlet was tit to line trunks with, reminding one of what O'Connell said to a writer, *'1 saw an excellent thing in your last essay !" " What was it ? what was it ?" eagerly cried Scriblerus. "It was a mutton pie," replied O'Connell!. I have therefore good reason to remember Longfellow's aphorism, "Suffer and be strong," which
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