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Charles Caleb Colton Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Charles Caleb Colton Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
children believe streets
Charles Dickens The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
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Charles Dickens That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
children pride men
Charles Dickens Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
children character eye
Charles Dickens He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
children character pride
Charles Dickens "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
children boys two
Charles Dickens I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
mean secret purpose
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
mean men light
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
Charles Caleb Colton We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Charles Caleb Colton Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Charles Dickens Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
mean land consideration
Charles Sturt The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
mean trust-in-god
Charles Stanley Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
mean grace salvation
Charles Spurgeon Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.
two religion plunder
Charles Caleb Colton There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
two iron gold
Charles Caleb Colton There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
two together mistress
Charles Caleb Colton If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
two people way
Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
two small-changes society
Charles Dickens That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
two people tea
Charles Dickens The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
two kind lawyer
Charles Dickens Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
two crap learners
Charles Stross I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .
two priorities world
Charles Stanley To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.