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  1. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
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  2. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell."
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  3. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    As all partings foreshadow the great final one, - so, empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be.
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  4. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie {as most men's sometimes do, I dare say} above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
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  5. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.
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  6. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.
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  7. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great {and dirty} city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.
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  8. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    All partings foreshadow the great final one.
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  9. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
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  10. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid.
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  11. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
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  12. Charles Dickens _ Bleak House

    A word in earnest is as good as a speech."
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