"Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations."
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"I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me."
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"Marley was dead: to begin with."
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"Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell."
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"But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless."
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"We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart."
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"After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin"."
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"It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by."
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"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."
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"I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief."
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"I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing."
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"Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out."
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"We never tire of the friendships we form with books."
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"The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense."
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"In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it."
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"Keep up appearances whatever you do."
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"A good thing can't be cruel."
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"Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst."
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"Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you."
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"I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee."
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