Charles Dickens Quotes, Character Quotes, Long Quotes

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Two Quotes , Long Quotes

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Long Quotes , Baptism Quotes

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Long Quotes , People Quotes

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Long Quotes , Democracy Quotes

Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Long Quotes

In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people like [Al-Qaida leader Osama] bin Laden are able to recruit suiciders, because if you don't have hope, you're attracted to an ideology which says, it's OK to kill people and kill yourself.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Hate Quotes , Long Quotes

So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Art Quotes , Long Quotes

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

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Tags : Alan Bradley Quotes , Careers Quotes , Long Quotes

I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).

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Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Long Quotes

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

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Tags : Aga Khan IV Quotes , Long Quotes , Greed Quotes

Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Long Quotes

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Long Quotes

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Revenge Quotes , Long Quotes

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Long Quotes , Cruelty Quotes

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Long Quotes , Trying Quotes

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Believe Quotes , Long Quotes