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Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

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Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

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It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

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To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.

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He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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