A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
- Charles Dickens Quote

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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He would make a lovely corpse.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
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No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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We are so very 'umble.
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
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You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
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