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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

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Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.

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They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

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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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We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

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"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

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We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

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I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

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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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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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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

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The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

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It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

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She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

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