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This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocond...more

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... I have always thought of Christmas-time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long cale...more

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I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they ...more

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A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, ...more

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There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes eve...more

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A man may live to be as old as Methuselah,’ said Mr. Filer, ‘and may labour all his life for the benefit of such people as those; and may heap up fact...more