It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
CHARLES DICKENSRegrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
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What greater gift than the love of a cat.
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But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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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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A very little key will open a very heavy door.
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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