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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and lo...more

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I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge ...more

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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, inten...more

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His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

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She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

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I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to kn...more

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I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

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He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had...more

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The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.

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He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

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I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

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Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the reviv...more