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The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope, and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people waiting t...more

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...and who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or h...more

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He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever...more

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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

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Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! B...more

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The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had l...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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I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.

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The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, ...more

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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmu...more

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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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We are a bed business, and a coffee-room business. We are not a general dining business, nor do we wish it. In consequence, when diners drop in, we kn...more

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My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.

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I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.