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Found in the topic Insults.
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| "I only ask for information." | |
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Found in the topic Information.
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| "Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general
recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and
impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot
really improve himself without in some degree improving other men." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Here?s the rule for bargains: ?Do other men, for they would do you.?
[Mr. Pecksniff]" | |
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Found in the topic Bargain.
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| "If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "It will generally be found that those who sneer habitually at human
nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant
samples." | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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| "This is a world of action, And not for moping and droning in." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Accidents will occur in the best regulated families." | |
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Found in the topic Accidents.
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| "With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of
the other." | |
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Found in the topic Affection.
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| "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." | |
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Found in the topic Valor.
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| "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age
of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it
was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the
season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of
despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were
all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way?in
short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its
noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil,
in the superlative degree of comparison only." | |
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Found in the topic Credulity.
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| "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely
not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!" | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he?s well
dressed. There an?t much credit in that." | |
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Found in the topic Apparel.
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| "Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There"s no
better rule." | |
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Found in the topic Everything.
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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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Found in the topic Kindness.
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| "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor
relations." | |
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Found in the topic Family.
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| ""There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, " ... in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated."" | |
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Found in the topic Heart.
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| "I love little children?and it is not a slight thing when they, who
are fresh from God, love us." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "?If the law supposes that,? said Mr. Bumble ... ?the law is a ass, a
idiot.?" | |
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Found in the topic Ass.
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| "Life is made of ever so many partings welded together." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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