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“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”

Charles Dickens · Business

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Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

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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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Charles Dickens

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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