Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Tag: Charles Dickens
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It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.