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• The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to…
• In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call…
• Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise,…
• Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…
• Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
• Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate…
• It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children,…
• How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;…
• To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental…
• Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay,…
• For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
• That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

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