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Change begets change.

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Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

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We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

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Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

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Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.

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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

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"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

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