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CHARLES DEGAULLE Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
CHARLES SUMNER How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bra...
CHARLES STUDD Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowe...
CHARLES DUHIGG In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they n...
CHARLES DUHIGG Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charge...
CHARLES DUHIGG Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
CHARLES DICKENS Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE