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Forgive me scribbling this way; but when a man gets on his hobby-horse he always is run away with.— More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
There give the hobby-horse more room to play in! "— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
You will perhaps reply that every man rides his hobby-horse to death; and that I am in the galloping state.— More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
This is my real hobby-horse at present.— More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
Walking here, I could for the time almost forget that I had ever owned a hobby-horse.— The Foot-path Way

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