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CHARLES DICKENS I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
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FRANZ LISZT Nobody wants to be a scrooge, but at the same time if we are not, we are going to be far worse off.
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EMER COLLINS See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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W. C. FIELDS Most people are idiots. There's nothing worse than idiots who tell you their opinions.
RICHARD KADREY She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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DISON ARNIBAL There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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ED HAYES There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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MARK MANGINO We did well today. Nothing is perfect, but we have things to build off of.
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BENNET OMALU None of us wants to leave this world in worse shape than we found it,
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CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one!
CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
CHARLES DICKENS 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...
CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS