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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Charles Dickens A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
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Charles Dickens Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
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Charles Dickens Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
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Charles Dickens Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
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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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Bill Walton Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
selfishness luxurious
Juvenal Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]
selfishness
C. S. Lewis Selfishness has never been admired.
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Aristotle Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
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Dalai Lama Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today
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Anne Campbell Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
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Albert Camus I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
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Susan Sontag One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
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Swami Vivekananda Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.