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The Old Curiosity Shop
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"The Old Curiosity Shop" Quotes

A young girl and her grandfather struggle to survive in the face of adversity and greed.

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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens

lightcontrast

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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endurancebrotherhood

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

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usefulnesskindness

The easy road is the way the lazy take.

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hard workperseverance

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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partingjoy

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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worldlawyers

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

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forgivenessmoving on

Such is the history of man's heart; it is to be found in every unwritten leaf of human experience.

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human naturehistory

To have a great deal of sorrow and trouble, makes you a better judge of character.

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sorrowcharacter

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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lifepartings