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Charles Dickens 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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Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
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Charles Dickens Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
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Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
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Charles Dickens A multitude of people and yet solitude.
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Charles Dickens My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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Charles Dickens Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Charles Dickens Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
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Charles Dickens Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
words-of-wisdom records trials
Charles Dickens Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Charles Dickens Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Charles Dickens Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
Charles Dickens A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Charles Dickens Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Charles Dickens Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Charles Dickens Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
words-of-wisdom causes obvious
David Hume The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
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Charles Dickens Please, sir, I want some more.
want faces misery
Charles Dickens I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
want waste firsts
Charles Spurgeon Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
want revival reverence
Charles Spurgeon If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
want walks
Alanis Morissette I want to walk through life.
want wake-up illusion
Alan Watts If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.
want doe angle
Alan Rickman I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
want making-money
Alan Greenspan Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
want painting feels
Alan Bean I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.