In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article.
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The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
"Death doesn't change us more than life."
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The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
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The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound-strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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