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" Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. "
Charles Dickens
Human Nature
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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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" The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. "
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" It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. "
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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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" Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! "
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" The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. "
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" Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. "
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" I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. "
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" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "
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" There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. "
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Two
Serious
" There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. "
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Dark
Earth
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" There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. "
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Had
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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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Done
Never
Time
" Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. "
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Grey
Regrets
Property
" Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. "
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Flame
Friendship
Wine
" Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. "
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Good
Potatoes
Words
" Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. "
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Person
System
Guarantee
" It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. "
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Away
Temper
Lungs
" The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. "
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Business
First
Men
" 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. "
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Round
Tis
Go
" If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. "
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Bad People
People
Bad
" 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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Business
Far
" 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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Child
Pride
Together
" Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. "
Charles Dickens
Life
Situation
Said
" The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. "
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Age
Succeeded
Past
" It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. "
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Rest
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" There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. "
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" Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. "
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" 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. "
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