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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

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

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

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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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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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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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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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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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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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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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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!

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You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

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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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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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

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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

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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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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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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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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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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.

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

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