Regrets,” said Martin, “are the natural property of grey hairs;…

Regrets,” said Martin, “are the natural property of grey hairs; and I enjoy, in common with all other men, at least my share of such inheritance.

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Chapter 10.

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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. - View Quote Details on Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
He’d make a lovely corpse. - View Quote Details on He’d make a lovely corpse.
What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long–sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non–existent to a short–sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is ALWAYS the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull? - View Quote Details on What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions,…
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. - View Quote Details on If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be…
There might be some credit in being jolly with a wife. - View Quote Details on There might be some credit in being jolly with a…
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honour and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them! - View Quote Details on Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations…
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. - View Quote Details on Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to…
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There an’t much credit in that. If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin to feel I had gained a point, Mr Pinch. - View Quote Details on Any man may be in good spirits and good temper…
I’ll tell you what, my dear,” he observed, when Mrs Gamp had at last withdrawn and shut the door, “that’s a ve-ry shrewd woman. That’s a woman whose intellect is immensely superior to her station in life. That’s a woman who observes and reflects in an uncommon manner. She’s the sort of woman now,” said Mould, drawing his silk handkerchief over his head again, and composing himself for a nap “one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing; and do it neatly, too! - View Quote Details on I’ll tell you what, my dear,” he observed, when Mrs…
Leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don’t ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged, and then I will do what I’m engaged to do, according to the best of my ability. - View Quote Details on Leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don’t ask me…