Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
From Charles Dickens
I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
He would make a lovely corpse.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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