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" A boy's story is the best that is ever told. "
Story
Boy
Ever
" A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. "
Others
Day
Wasted
" A loving heart is the truest wisdom. "
Love
Heart
Loving
" Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. "
You
Him
People
" An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. "
Explain
Will
Like
" Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. "
Dressed
Credit
Good
" Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. "
Life
Situation
Said
" A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. "
Natural
Legs
Two
" A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. "
Fact
Wonderful
Reflect
" Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. "
Lightning
Bottled
Bring
" Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. "
Justice
Home
Door
" Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. "
Christmas
Time
Mind
" Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china. "
Been
Passion
Cows
" Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. "
Person
System
Guarantee
" Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. "
People
Questions
Dignity
" 'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. "
Spell
You
Taste
" Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. "
True
Soul
Brave
" Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. "
Flame
Friendship
Wine
" Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. "
Great Men
Seldom
Men
" Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! "
Youth
Win
Man
" Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. "
Touch
Tires
Heart
" He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. "
He
Prejudice
Two
" He would make a lovely corpse. "
Lovely
Corpse
Would
" Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. "
Name
Spirit
Stronger
" If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. "
Bad People
People
Bad
" I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. "
Men
Face
Honesty
" I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond. "
Life
My Life
Me
" I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. "
Done
Never
Time
" In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. "
World
Injustice
Nothing
" I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. "
Only
Freedom
Free
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