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I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,...

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gone before To that unknown and silent shore,

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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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The vices of some men are magnificent.

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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

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Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.

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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

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Lawyers I suppose were children once.

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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

By Charles Lamb
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

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