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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. (Charles Dickens)
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. View quote
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. View quote
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. View quote
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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. View quote
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. View quote
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. View quote
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. View quote
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. View quote
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. View quote
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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. (Charles Dickens)
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! View quote
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. View quote
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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. View quote
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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'. View quote
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. View quote
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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. View quote
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. View quote
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. View quote
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Annual income twenty pound, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pound, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. View quote
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told. (Charles Dickens)
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. View quote
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. View quote
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. View quote
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And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration. View quote
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