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- Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
- Never sign a valentine with your own name.
- Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and…
- Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds…
- It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim…
- I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for…
- The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself…
- I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and…
- 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,…
- 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…
- It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
- 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…
- I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free…
- every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of…
- Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
- Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise,…
- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I…
- All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should…
- Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages…
- He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up…
- Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at…
- Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
- But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with…
- Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about…
- It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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