You are hard at work madam ," ...

You are hard at work madam ,\
You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .
 Charles Dickens

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.
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Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
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