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Charles Dickens: I expect a...

Charles Dickens: I expect a...

I expect a judgment. Shortly.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
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Charles Dickens: Cheerfulness and contentment...

Charles Dickens: Cheerfulness and contentment...

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful...

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Charles Dickens: A loving heart...

Charles Dickens: A loving heart...

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Charles Dickens: There is nothing...

Charles Dickens: There is nothing...

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

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Charles Dickens: She's the sort...

Charles Dickens: She's the sort...

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly,...

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Charles Dickens: Whatever was required...

Charles Dickens: Whatever was required...

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art...

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E B White: Shocking writing is...

E B White: Shocking writing is...

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and...

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Mark Twain: In the weltering...

Mark Twain: In the weltering...

In the weltering hell of the Moorooroo plain
The Yatala Wangary withers and dies,
And the Worrow Wanilla,...

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Mark Twain: An Englishman is...

Mark Twain: An Englishman is...

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things...

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Mark Twain: Adam and Eve...

Mark Twain: Adam and Eve...

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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Mark Twain: Habit is habit,...

Mark Twain: Habit is habit,...

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a...

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Mark Twain: I find that...

Mark Twain: I find that...

I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

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Jerome K Jerome: The shy man...

Jerome K Jerome: The shy man...

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain...

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Honore de Balzac: Most people of...

Honore de Balzac: Most people of...

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Depend upon it...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Depend upon it...

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It...

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G K Chesterton: If a thing...

G K Chesterton: If a thing...

If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly.

Source: What's Wrong with the...

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G K Chesterton: Cruelty is, perhaps,...

G K Chesterton: Cruelty is, perhaps,...

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of...

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G K Chesterton: Nothing is poetical...

G K Chesterton: Nothing is poetical...

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not...

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G K Chesterton: The old idea...

G K Chesterton: The old idea...

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that...

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G K Chesterton: The family is...

G K Chesterton: The family is...

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by...

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