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It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Dickens

It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
CHARLES DICKENS

Break Deep Result Worth
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
CHARLES DICKENS

Carry Hell Love Mad Misery Myself Vision
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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Bad People Result
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS

Light World
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
CHARLES DICKENS

Age Deep Old Regret
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
CHARLES DICKENS

Carry Philosophy Vice Virtue
To a young heart everything is fun.
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Fun Heart Young
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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Character Heart Self Love Touch
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
CHARLES DICKENS

Evidence Life
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
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Herself Music Ocean
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
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Goodness Talk Word
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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Emotion Hide Philosophy
Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.
CHARLES DICKENS

Deep Enemy Goodness Quite
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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Evil Hope Love Reality World
The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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Deep Man Worst
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
CHARLES DICKENS

Failure Learning Man Teaching

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