The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.
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The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.Charles Dickens
It was as true, said Mr. Barkis, ... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning him-self to let it eat him away.
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'There's a Providence in it all,' said Sam. O' course there is,' replied his father with a nod of grave approval. Wot 'ud become o' the undertakers vithout it, Sammy'
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