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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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" 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 only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. "

" 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. "

" Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. "

" 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. "

" When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. "

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" 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. "

" It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. "

" Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! "

" The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. "

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

" Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. "

" It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. "

" He would make a lovely corpse. "

" Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. "

" It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. "

" 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. "

" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "

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

" A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. "

" There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. "

" Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. "

" Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. "

" I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. "

" If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. "

" This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. "

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" No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. "

" We are so very 'umble. "

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" Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. "

" Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. "