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Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

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Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

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Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

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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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Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

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In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

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It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

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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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What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

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... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

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They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

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Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

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things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

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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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if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

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There might be some credit in being jolly.

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Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

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