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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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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

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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.

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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'.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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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.

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