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Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

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

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The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

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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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And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

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She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

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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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The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

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a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

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I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

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The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

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Marley was dead: to begin with.

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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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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

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One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.

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