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'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.

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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and lo...more

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I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge ...more

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He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed ...more

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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, inten...more

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I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successf...more

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She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

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It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with to...more

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I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

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I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

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He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had...more

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The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.

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They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas f...more

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injus...more

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Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.