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| But Fate is stronger than all of us, and willed what has come to pass. |
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| By economy and good management -- by a sparing use of ready money and by paying scarcely anybody, -- people can manage to make a great show with very little means. |
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| Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year |
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| Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree |
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| Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. |
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| Dinner was made for eating, not for talking |
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| Dinners are given mostly in the middle classes by way of revenge. |
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| Even when I am reading my lectures, I often think to myself, "What a humbug you are," and I wonder the people don't find it out. |
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| Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. |
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| Everyone knows the harm the bad do, but who knows the mischief done by the good? |
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| Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. |
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| Fiction carries a greater amount of truth in solution than the volume which purports to be all true. |
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| For a steady self-esteem and indomitable confidence in our own courage, greatness, magnanimity, who can compare with Britons, except their children across the Atlantic? |
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| Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. |
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| He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. |
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| Heaven does not choose its elect from among the great and wealthy. |
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| How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! |
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