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I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens's Popular Quotes

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

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A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

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Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

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Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

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