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'Bah,' said Scrooge. 'Humbug!'  
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.  
A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which...  
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.  
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee ...  
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constit...  
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result h...  
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed....  
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situatio...  
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.  
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it ha...  
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another perso...  
Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depend...  
Eccentricities of genius.  
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of some...  
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attir...  
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our c...  
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a ...  
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.  
He would make a lovely corpse.  
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not look...  
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctua...  
I only ask for information.  
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.  
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent h...  
I wants to make your flesh creep.  
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.  
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.  
If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some ide...  
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever ...  
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answe...  
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and so...  
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and ...  
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.  
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's b...  
Keep up appearances whatever you do.  
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.  
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.  
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned st...  
Minerva House... was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," whe...  
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activ...  
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and fr...  
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyon...  
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for...  
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; no...  
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.  
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.  
Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders al...  
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.  
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.  
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brothe...  
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.  
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.  
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he s...  
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this...  
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.  
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.  
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simp...  
There might be some credit in being jolly.  
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.  
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nat...  
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!  
We are so very 'umble.  
We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good unifo...  
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to...  
When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many thin...  
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the ...  
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.