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accidents will occur in the best regulated families. |
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I only ask
to be free, the butterflies are free. |
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There might
be some credit in being jolly. |
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Never, never before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single
bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the
first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something
sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death to
be forgotten.
- From Dumbey And Son |
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Now, I
return to this young fellow And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great
expectations. |
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Something
will come of this. I hope it mayn’t be human gore. |
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It is not my
desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may
be a hypocrite," said Mr Peeksniff, "but I am not a brute.
- From his Work |
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Take another
glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be
so strictly conscientious in emptying one’s glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with
the rim on one’s nose. |
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It was
understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by
reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological
than gout, run, and purser’s stores. |
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