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people literature may
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?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Charles Dickens Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
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.
people solitude multitudes
Charles Dickens A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
Charles Dickens My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
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.
want please workhouses
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.
littles making-money easy
Charles Dickens Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
littles wealth rich
Charles Caleb Colton The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
littles want wealth
Charles Caleb Colton Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
littles revolution events
Charles Caleb Colton The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
littles facts sometimes
Charles Caleb Colton Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.
littles too-much violence
Charles Caleb Colton In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
littles cry you-again
Charles Dickens -Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
littles wake-up poor
Alan Watts If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...
littles
Alan Moore I have so very much. I have so very little.