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" Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. "

Charles Dickens

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? "

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" A boy's story is the best that is ever told. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. "

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" Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. "

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" Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. "

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" There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. "

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