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• Whatever you would make habitual, practise it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practise it, but habituate yourself to something else.
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• In a Pickwickian sense. -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- Pickwick Papers, Chap. i
• Barkis is willin'. -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- David Copperfield, Chap. v
• There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
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• The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all
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• The following is a memo from the business manager of Valu-Mart stores.
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• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done
  it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known....