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    A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

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    An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

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    I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot Browne alone-and none of them present any very marked physical characteristics. They are sweet and graceful, neither tall nor short; they have a pretty droop in their shoulders, and are very ladylike; sometimes they wear ringlets, sometimes not, and each would do very easily for the other.

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    Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

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    Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

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    Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

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    The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

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    The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

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    Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just a thing of contrasts and comparisons, like health or strength or beauty or any other good--that wouldn't even be noticed but for sad personal experience of its opposite!--or its greater!