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Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

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Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

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To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.

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

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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

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Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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The American woman is a monstrosity.

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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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Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

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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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Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

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