"He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone."

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"Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own."

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"With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought."

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"There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies."

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"No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains."

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"By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away."

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"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection."

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"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."

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"We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence."

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"For though his body 's under hatches, His soul has gone aloft."

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"Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly, Though winds blew great guns, still he 'd whistle and sing; Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly, And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king."

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"His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he 's gone aloft."

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"There 's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack."

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"Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love, and a little for the bottle."

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"Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT."

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"The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it."

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"When found, make a note of."

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"In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile."

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"A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!"

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"Barkis is willin'."

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"Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green."

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"He 's tough, ma'am,--tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly."

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"My life is one demd horrid grind."

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"In a Pickwickian sense."

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"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, all very good words for the lips,--especially prunes and prism."

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"Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in."

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"It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war."

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"Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea."

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"The morn was fair, the skies were clear, No breath came o'er the sea."

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"The bud is on the bough again, The leaf is on the tree."

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"Come o'er the moonlit sea, The waves are brightly glowing."

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"Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three.""

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"We have lived and loved together Through many changing years; We have shared each other's gladness, And wept each other's tears."

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"I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I 've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born."

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"A word in season spoken May calm the troubled breast."

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"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song."

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"Men must work, and women must weep."

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"The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again."

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"O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!"

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"And half had staggered that stout Stagirite."

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"Gone before To that unknown and silent shore."

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"Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.""

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"Not if I know myself at all."

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"For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord."

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"A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game."

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"It argues an insensibility."

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"Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!"

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"Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it."

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"I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days. All, all are gone, the old familiar faces."

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"I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves."

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