"Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?"

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"Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?"

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"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners."

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"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."

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"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."

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"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

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"My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!"

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"His face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on."

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"If the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."

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