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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.
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| Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge |
Mrs. Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper--a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
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| Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge |
Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent.
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| Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |
"At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;
But like of each thing that in season grows."
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| William Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost |
"More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before.
The setting sun, and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
Writ in remembrance more than things long past."
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| William Shakespeare | King Richard II |
"A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get."
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| L. Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
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| George Bernard Shaw | Man And Superman |
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
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| William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
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| William Shakespeare | The Comedy of Errors |
Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth to season.
Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say
That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
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| William Shakespeare | The Comedy of Errors |
