The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
CHARLES DICKENSA 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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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.
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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
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A very little key will open a very heavy door.
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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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Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
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