""Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future.""
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"I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil."
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"Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher."
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"There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness."
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"Least said, soonest mended"
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"The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself."
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"Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad."
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"... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance."
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"The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty."
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"I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished."
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"Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it."
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"The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature."
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"He did each single thing as if he did nothing else."
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"It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present."
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"When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself."
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"We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner."
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"It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last."
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"Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye."
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"I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest."
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"Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation."
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