I think we've finally found our heart. Maybe we've got what it takes to turn this 2-8 record around. Everybody doubted us coming in. But we finally proved a point tonight.


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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last
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Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
CHARLES DICKENS
It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain...
CHARLES DICKENS
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge...
CHARLES DICKENS
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d...
CHARLES DICKENS
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o...
CHARLES DICKENS
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi...
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
CHARLES DICKENS
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
CHARLES DICKENS
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
CHARLES DICKENS
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
CHARLES DICKENS
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
CHARLES DICKENS
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
CHARLES DICKENS
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
CHARLES DICKENS
We forge the chains we wear in life.
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ...
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ...
CHARLES DICKENS
[Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee...
CHARLES DICKENS
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi...
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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,...
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth...
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Now that it was safe to drag their relationship out into the light and examine it mercilessly it was...
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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...
CHARLES DICKENS
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
CHARLES DICKENS
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
CHARLES DICKENS
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't...
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t...
CHARLES DICKENS
He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pick...
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