Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.

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It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

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Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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Do you spell it with a ""V"" or a ""W""?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

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