things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.