"Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman."
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"May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it."
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"But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer."
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"He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach."
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"Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing."
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"My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable."
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"You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn."
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"Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you."
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"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states."
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"A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!"
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"Them which is of other naturs thinks different."
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"He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand."
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"My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention"
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"I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat."
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"[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air."
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"And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea."
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"Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on."
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"The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck."
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"I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?"
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"Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now."
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