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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.
