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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. – Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd, 1835

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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. – Charles Kingsley

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens

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