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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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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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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

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... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.

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

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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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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

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I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

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Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

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There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

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"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

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I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

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