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writing justice add
Charles Caleb Colton Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
writing first-love should-have
Charles Dickens Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
writing names forgiving
Charles Dickens Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
writing support events
Charles Dickens Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
writing stories want
Charles Soule Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.
writing years long
Charles Stross If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.
writing hints facts
Charles Stross If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
writing ideas stories
Charles Stross Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
gambling may succeed
Charles Caleb Colton Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
gambling nevada people push sports
Dick Davies The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.
gambling honor dice
William Shakespeare It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.
gambling games fire
Charles Lamb A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
gambling soul nuisance
Charles Baudelaire I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
gambling good kids seeing
Edward Looney We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.
gambling game good sitting
Merle Olberding There wasn't any gambling about it because the game was on the line, and they weren't going to do us any good sitting on the bench.
gambling million numerous period placed running
Brendan Conway There were numerous intercepts that he was running a gambling operation. There was one 28-day period in Nov. 2005 when he placed more than $3 million in bets.
gambling hand people smoking
Ed Smith Some people just won't come gambling because gambling and smoking go hand in hand.