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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

Charles Dickens
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A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

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A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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

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

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

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

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

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