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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

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He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

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"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?"

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

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Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which Mrs. Colonel Wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

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