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The wind's in the east * * * I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

— 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.

Sketches by Boz (1836)

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.

Master Humphrey's Clock (1840)

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

Great Expectations (1860)

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

Sketches by Boz (1836)

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