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I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successf...more

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We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

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the sight of me is good for sore eyes

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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

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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I ...more

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Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

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The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.

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That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and thin...more

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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights g...more

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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

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The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like ...more

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It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers...more

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Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!

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Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.