All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

Charles Dickens

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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

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My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

Charles Dickens

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There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.

M.F. Moonzajer

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