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1 " He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him. "
― Hall Caine , The Manxman
2 " He was all iron outside, but all father within. "
3 " It's ill-luck to serve a bad man, "
― Hall Caine , The Shadow of a Crime
4 " leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose. "
5 " when one dies, those who survive ask what he has left behind; the angel who bends above him asks what he has sent before. "
6 " But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction! "
7 " Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise, "
8 " Hidden there—hidden even from himself—had lain inert for months a mighty passion such as only a great heart "
9 " Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords. "
