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We must try, however: consider well that my fortune is very small.

I cannot consider this; but I ought to consider that my own is still smaller.

And whatever I have, I shall divide with my brother; for he is a posthumous child, and has not one farthing of his own.

I should deserve to be a slave in the galleys, could I wish thee to be one jot less generous.

With prospects so precarious and so distant, ought we to be often together, or to enter into any engagement?

As far as incessant application to my profession can make them less precarious, I will toil;—no, no, I may not call it toil;—the patriarch's servitude for her whom he loved was sweet to him, and seemed but a few days.