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We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, an...more

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Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and have not outlived you yet. Welcome, old projects, a...more

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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.

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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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That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillo...more

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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at ...more

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

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You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."What do you make, Madam ?"Many things."...more

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Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to...more

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LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as...more

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Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade

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It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being...more

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[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

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The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possession, and the gloom of the house was most depressing....more