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Jane Austen: It is happy...

Jane Austen: It is happy...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...

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Jane Austen: Nobody can tell...

Jane Austen: Nobody can tell...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never...

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Richard Bach: It is by...

Richard Bach: It is by...

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room...

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Evelyn Waugh: He was gifted...

Evelyn Waugh: He was gifted...

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the...

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Charles Dickens: She's the only...

Charles Dickens: She's the only...

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a...

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Charles Dickens: To be shelterless...

Charles Dickens: To be shelterless...

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long...

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Charles Dickens: Far better hang...

Charles Dickens: Far better hang...

Far better hang wrong fler than no fler.

Source: (The debilitated cousin) Bleak...

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Charles Dickens: I am a...

Charles Dickens: I am a...

I am a lone lorn creetur,' were Mrs. Gummidge's words . . . 'and everythink goes contrairy with...

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Charles Dickens: I do not...

Charles Dickens: I do not...

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

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George Eliot: We must find...

George Eliot: We must find...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: If there is...

Jane Austen: If there is...

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.

Source:...

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Richard Bach: There are no...

Richard Bach: There are no...

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn...

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Charles Dickens: There's light enough...

Charles Dickens: There's light enough...

There's light enough for what I've got to do.

Source: (Bill Sikes) Oliver Twist,...

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Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

He [Mr Turveydrop] is celebrated almost everywhere, for his Deportment.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: We've got a...

Charles Dickens: We've got a...

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's...

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Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 23
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Charles Dickens: It was a...

Charles Dickens: It was a...

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's...

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Charles Dickens: Here's the rule...

Charles Dickens: Here's the rule...

Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business...

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Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken...

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Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to...

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