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Chapter 32: Thirty-first Day.

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A curated sequence of short aphorisms and brief extracts drawn from the novelist's writings, arranged as daily readings labeled by day. Each entry presents pithy moral observations, practical maxims, and character sketches on virtues, friendship, duty, hope, and human foibles, often with the original work or character noted. The selections act as compact reflections suited to daily contemplation, blending wit, moral instruction, and worldly advice into concise standalone lines that together form a thematic sampler of recurring ethical concerns.

Thirty-first Day.

Our judgments are so liable to be

influenced by many

considerations, which almost

without our knowing it, are unfair,

that it is necessary to keep a guard upon them.

Little Dorrit.

There are chords in the human heart—

strange varying strings—

which are only struck by accident.

Old Curiosity Shop.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation,

whatever it is;

and to think himself bound to uphold it, and

to claim for it the respect it deserves.

Little Dorrit.