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Whatever Was Required To Be Done, The Circumlocution Office Was Beforehand With All The Public Departments In The Art Of Perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.
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Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand
with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO
DO IT.
-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
-- Little Dorrit, Book ii, Chap. x
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liv...
Whatever you would make habitual, practise it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practise it, but habituate yourself to something else.
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There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all
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