It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Bleak House
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart. Book II
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. The Old Curiosity Shop
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. Parerga and Paralipomena
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