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«Lizzie! I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt me and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life, WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes almost wish you had struck me dead along with it.»

Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: affect, bewilder, carelessness, construction, My state, officious

«The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life / this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.»

Author: P. J. O'Rourke (Humorist, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: greedy, ills, intrusion, intrusions, mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, nosy, officious, pay attention

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