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" You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. "
Charles Dickens
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" Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. "
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" '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'. "
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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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" Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. "
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" 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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" 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. "
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" Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! "
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" It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. "
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" The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. "
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" The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. "
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" This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. "
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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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Stronger
" Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. "
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" The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. "
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" It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. "
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Poor
Men
" 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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Christmas
Time
Mind
" If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. "
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Bad People
People
Bad
" There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. "
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Life
Nothing
" There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. "
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Earth
Lights
" 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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Poor
Oh
" Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. "
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Moral
Existence
" I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. "
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Try
Year
Christmas
" We are so very 'umble. "
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" Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. "
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Justice
Home
Door
" 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
" 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. "
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World
Injustice
Nothing
" Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. "
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Life
Ever
" Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. "
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Willingly
" A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. "
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