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#1

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#2

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: disparity, marriage, matches, matrimony, mind, purpose, suitability, unhappiness

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#3

“Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#4

“...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: love, strength, truth

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#5

“It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us. No! Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: death, inspirational

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#6

“We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#7

“Your sister Betsey Trotwood...”
― Charles Dickens

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#8

“Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly.

I do.'

Which would you choose?'

There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.'

But suppose you had to choose?'

Then I should choose the right-hand weevil; it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth.'

There I have you,' cried Jack. 'You are bit - you are completely dished. Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha!”
― Patrick O'Brian

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#9

“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore

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#10

“This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'

Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain

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#11

“Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

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#12

“... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room”
― Patrick O'Brian

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#13

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: forgiveness

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#14

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#15

“One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: p-296, sohrab

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#16

“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: creativity, writing

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#17

“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: clichés, nails, similes, well-worn-phrases

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#18

“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#19

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: christmas, happiness, pleasure

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#20

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: christmas

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#21

“It’s easy to sing the song, but to pray the lyrics from deep within… that’s worship!”
― Gangai Victor

tags: singing, worship

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#22

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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#23

“Let your heart sing from those wounded places.
When you sing your song with everything you've got,
it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.”
― Gemma B. Benton, Then She Sang A Willow Song: Reclaiming Life and Power with the Ancestors

tags: heal, healer, healing, inspirational, power, sing, singing, spiritual-power, wounded, wounding, wounds

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#24

“If I cannot fly, let me sing.”
― Stephen Sondheim

tags: music, singing, song

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#25

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
― Yip Harburg

tags: music, singing, songs, thinking

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#26

“I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#27

“No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

tags: memory

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#28

“Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#29

“When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#30

“Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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