"I feel an earnest and humble desire,..." - Quote by Charles Dickens
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
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“The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.”
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