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Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

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Keep up appearances whatever you do.

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"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy."

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Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

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Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

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"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest."

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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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

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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.

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I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

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

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A man must take the fat with the lean.

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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

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Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

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And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

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