Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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There are no strangers here, Only friends you haven't yet met.

There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above, those that I fight I do not hate

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above, those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk throu

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

I think you can leave the arts superior or inferior to the conscience of mankind.

I think you can leave the arts superior or inferior to the conscience of mankind.

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