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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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his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the...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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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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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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He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

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Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the reviv...more

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I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.