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The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose-and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.

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The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

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My life is one demd horrid grind.

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He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

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United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

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You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

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He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

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"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

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May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

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Trifles make the sum of life.

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Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

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

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Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

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