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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- James Russell Lowell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.
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