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Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
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Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
Charles Dickens
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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.
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Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.
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He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.
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The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.
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Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens
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Not to put too fine a point upon it.
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You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
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But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.
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The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
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Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.
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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
Charles Dickens
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The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
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The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
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I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
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Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.
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O let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.
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I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.
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When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
Charles Dickens