Charles Dickens Quotes
"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
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The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
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At every level of his short NBA career, he's responded, and I think he'll respond in the playoffs. But it's not going to be easy. No matter how great those guys are, it's not easy the first time.
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"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
