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My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

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Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

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While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

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I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

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Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

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I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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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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My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

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If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

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A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

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It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

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Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

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Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

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