"There might be some credit in being jolly."
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"If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
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"Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea."
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"Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman."
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"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."
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"The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy."
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"Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries."
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"In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it."
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"The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world."
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"I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?"
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"Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking."
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"I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness."
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"And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!"
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"Grief never mended no broken bones."
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"Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down."
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"The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves."
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"It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down."
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"But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply."
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"For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love."
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"Man cannot really improve himself without improving others."
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