'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.
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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...
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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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He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.
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Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s...
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The kind of submission or resignation that he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner or from ...
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Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet,...
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith ...
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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
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But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The...
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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.
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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...
