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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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A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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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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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

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When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ.

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Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

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A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

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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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The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.

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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and soothed her to sleep. And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild flight-which was the dance at Little Dorrit's party.

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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

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A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

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He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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