Charles Dickens quote: "A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what<br />the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general<br />resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.<br />Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion."

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w...
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear...
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You have been the last dream of my soul.
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happ...
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sor...
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What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us...
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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:

Ever been kicked?
Might have been.
Freque...
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When found, make a note of.
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bod...
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Its very strange, said Mr. Dick that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfect...
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A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned dam...
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God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
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If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a assa idiot. If thats the eye of the law, the...
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What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing...
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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What greater gift than the love of a cat.
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Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or bric...
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips...
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[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as...
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm o...
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of
specious humbug designed to con...
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There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal ...
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty...
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In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should...
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against...
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart...
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
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You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life,"...
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We need never be ashamed of our tears.
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...
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After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back ...
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Lord, keep my memory green.
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I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to ment...
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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now...
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It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must b...
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The pure, the bright,
The beautiful that stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulses to wordles...
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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted dow...
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through ...
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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear br...
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Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; i...
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A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies ...
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If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stag...
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfu...
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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many i...
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encour...
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't tru...
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The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be...
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I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares an...
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Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not d...
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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays...
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Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages fr...
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He would make a lovely corpse.
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading...
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the ...
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Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of whic...
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The law is sic a ass - a idiot.
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Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept.
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A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud...
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After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back ...
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Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and ...
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Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they...
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We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with th...
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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it,...
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, ann...
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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet ...
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I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tom...
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
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. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourse...
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Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in ...
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not ...
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the...
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person...
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi...
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
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A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
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Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! Th...
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Circumstances beyond my individual control.
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A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
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God bless us every one.
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of s...
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"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."
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I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
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'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.
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I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.
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If you don't like the weather, wait a minute
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encou...
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If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, ...
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance a...
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of ...
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A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ...
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Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!
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Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.
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A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread...
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that th...
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Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.
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Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the dis...
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The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
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The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
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It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go to...
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Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick...
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
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I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothi...
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Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.
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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi...
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that ...
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...
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"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated....
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last
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Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain...
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Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge...
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d...
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o...
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi...
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ...
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ...
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[Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee...
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi...
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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,...
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth...
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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't...
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t...
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He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pick...
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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau...
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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but...
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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
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Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, le...
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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
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The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection...
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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli...
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He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h...
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ...
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"And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer...
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...
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God bless us, every one!
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from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
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Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
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There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
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Some credit in being jolly.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
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Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
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If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
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Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
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A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

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A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

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A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

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A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.