"The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on."
"Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping."
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Source: Albert Richard Smith (1848). “The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad”, p.183
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