Quote by Charles Dickens
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pitys small change in general society. – Charles Dickens

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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas…. – Charles Dickens

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A man in public life expects to be sneered at — it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. – Charles Dickens

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I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that Im used to. – Dennis Quaid

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I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change – which lasted a couple of weeks – was based on the very simple instinct that its wrong to kill animals for food. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. – David Letterman

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The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny. – Jim DeMint

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I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. – Bette Davis

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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. – E. M. Forster

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. – Gore Vidal

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