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• They can endure as many hard buffets, and come out as tough and strong, as the veriest dolt whose intellectual bark foundered in the unsounded depths of his primer. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
• Though he may never have committed an overt act of unchastity, if he cannot pass a handsome female in the street without, in imagination, approaching the secrets of her person, he is but one grade above the open libertine, and is as truly unchaste as the veriest debauchee Man may not see these mental adulteries, he may not perceive these filthy imaginings; but One sees and notes them. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young
• Even this commonplace list of Court days in the Forest of Dean becomes a beautiful poem when the light of such a past shines on it; just as the veriest dust of the Krakatoan volcano evolves itself into every color of the rainbow when it rises into the sunset sky Since writing this paper I find that Philip Baylis, the Verderer of the Forest of Dean, has kindly sent three or four dozen of young oak trees from the Government plantations, to Washington, in order that they may be planted there and in some other places in the United States, to begin the century with. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
• And yet I am bound to admit that when I discovered what had happened I swore deliberately and roundly like the veriest trooper. —  The Opinions of a Philosopher
• "Sometimes I think she doesn't care for me more than she does for the veriest stranger amongst her acquaintances, and sometimes expressive pause Yes? —  A Little Rebel A Novel

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