What is meant by a knowledge of the world is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men.
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Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.Charles Dickens
Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.
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It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One
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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
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I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
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