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"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

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You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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The law is an ass, an idiot.

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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

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"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood..."

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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

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I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

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I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

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…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

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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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There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

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On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

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The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

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