Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) (Delphi Parts Edition by Charles DickensMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
“At every turn!” cried Martin. “Self, self, self. Every one among them for himself!”
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And it being quite impossible that any difference of opinion can take place among women without every woman who is within hearing taking active part in it...
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Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage.
But all men have to wait for time and tide.
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...they’re so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with ‘em. They’ve such a passion for Liberty, that they can’t help taking liberties with her.
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Oh, weary, weary hour! Oh, haggard mind, groping darkly through the past; incapable of detaching itself from the miserable present; dragging its heavy chain of care through imaginary feasts and revels, and scenes of awful pomp; seeking but a moment’s rest among the long-forgotten haunts of childhood, and the resorts of yesterday; and dimly finding fear and horror everywhere! Oh, weary, weary hour! What were the wanderings of Cain, to these!
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