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We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer.
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Charles Dickens
“Take a word of advice, even from three foot nothing. Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.”
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield: Unabridged edition

Charles Dickens
“We will use no harsh terms,' said brother Charles, in a gentle voice; 'but accommodate ourselves to the circumstances in which this young lady is placed.”
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

William Makepeace Thackeray
“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrows SEEM, and how small they ARE; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness.”
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

James Clavell
“so my husband is doing what a man, a samurai, must do. A samurai dies with dignity. For what is life to a samurai? Nothing at all. All life is suffering, neh? It is his right and duty to die with honor, before witnesses.”
James Clavell, Shōgun, Part 1

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