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My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.


Charles Plancon

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CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bra...
CHARLES STUDD Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowe...
CHARLES DUHIGG In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they n...
CHARLES DUHIGG Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charge...
CHARLES DUHIGG Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
CHARLES DICKENS Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;<...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The dev...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth...
CHARLES LAMB Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man...
CHARLES RICHARDS Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU