It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.


Charles Dickens

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[Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee...
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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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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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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...
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He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pick...
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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau...
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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but...
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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
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Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, le...
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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
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The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection...
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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli...
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He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h...
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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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She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ...
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"And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer...
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...
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God bless us, every one!
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from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
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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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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
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Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
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There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
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Some credit in being jolly.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
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Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
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If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
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Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
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