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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

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Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

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Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

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The law is an ass, an idiot.

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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

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Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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

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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

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Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

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It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

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It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

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