“ Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ”
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“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”
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“ Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ”
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“ Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm. ”
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“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”
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“ Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? ”
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“ It was in the reign of George II. that the abovenamed personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now ”
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“ Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it. ”
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“ There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. ”
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“ I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy. ”
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“ It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men. ”
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“ I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ”
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“ If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations. ”
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“ If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. ”
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“ Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. ”
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“ No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love… ”
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“ No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love… ”
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“ When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. ”
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“ What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. ”
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“ It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. ”
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“ What peace, what love, what truth, what beauty, what happiness for all, what generous kindness for you and me, are here spread out! ”
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“ A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. ”
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“ People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. ”
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“ Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ”
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“ Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree. ”
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