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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 assoc...more

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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a ...more

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He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned b...more

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So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew ...more

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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.