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"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

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Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

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But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

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Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

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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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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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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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

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I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

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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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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

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Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.

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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

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If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

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My life is one demd horrid grind.

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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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It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

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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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