Quote #34

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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  2. A man in public life expects to be sneered at-it is the fault of his elevated sitiwation, and not of himself.
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  4. May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
  5. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
  6. That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
  7. 'It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper,' said Mr. Bumble. 'So cry away.'
  8. How can you capture the sympathies of the audience unless you have a small man, fighting against a bigger one?

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