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The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope, and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people waiting t...more

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...and who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or h...more

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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a ...more

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It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of...more

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He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever...more

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

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The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her...more

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Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!‘I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!’ Scrooge repeated,...more

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There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest....more

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Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little...more

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

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I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.

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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

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When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of wha...more