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What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

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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 a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

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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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When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even su...more

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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

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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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‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am,...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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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

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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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For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And when you see your own brig...more