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In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness woul...more

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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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I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

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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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I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

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A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

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Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.