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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.
A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
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.
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.
A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
I have known him come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.
With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.