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There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

— Charles Dickens

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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

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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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

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