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Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.
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He’s tough, ma’am,-tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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We must scrunch or be scrunched.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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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, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
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Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.
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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
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What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.
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I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx.
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Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.
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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.
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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
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in a private letter to letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857
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It seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, 'I never whitened a hair of her dear head, I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!' For of all the many things that you can think when you are a man, you had better have that by you, Woolwich!
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As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.
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