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Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

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Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

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

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In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.

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Keep up appearances whatever you do.

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"Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."

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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

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The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

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If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

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My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

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I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

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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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"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

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... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

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