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... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.
To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it
There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.
The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?
True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.
And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.
Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.