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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

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The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

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The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.

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Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.

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It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

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If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

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The American woman is a monstrosity.

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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

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

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I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

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Lord, keep my memory green.

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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

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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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He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

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Least said, soonest mended

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In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.

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