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funny humorous men
Charles Dickens Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
funny children flower
Charles Dickens It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.
funny humorous mind
Charles Dickens I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
funny morning self
Charles Dickens All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
funny death witty
Charles Dickens He would make a lovely corpse.
funny kings humorous
Charles Dickens It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
funny people literature
Charles Dickens Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
funny christmas xmas
Charles Dickens Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
life contentment cheerful
Charles Dickens Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
life strong truth
Charles Dickens There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
life saying-goodbye expectations
Charles Dickens Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
life autism world
Charles Dickens This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
life moral existence
Charles Dickens Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
life littles
Charles Dickens Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
life people astonishing
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
life soul prison
Charles Caleb Colton Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
life happiness dark
Charles Caleb Colton Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
country easy walks
Charles Dickens It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
country men climate
Charles Caleb Colton In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Charles Caleb Colton Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
Charles Caleb Colton In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
Charles Caleb Colton As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
Charles Caleb Colton The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Charles Dickens Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
Charles Dickens If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Charles Dickens Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.