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ups and downs Quotes

Six of the best book quotes about ups and downs
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“If you accept that life is a series of ups and downs, you will get through the downs.”
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“Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I’ve had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I’ve always tried to look at life like a glass that’s half full.”
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“Each book shares the ups and downs in the lives of this special family, through the eyes of Ella, Charlotte, Henny, Sarah, Gertie, and their little brother, Charlie.”
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“He must have had some ups and downs in life to make him such a churl. Do you know anything of his history?”
Source: Chapter 4, Paragraph 28
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“Hard luck, old man,” he said, when they were alone; “but maybe it’s taught you a lesson.”
Source: Chapter 25, Line 62
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At Startop’s suggestion, we put ourselves down for election into a club called The Finches of the Grove: the object of which institution I have never divined, if it were not that the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs. I know that these gratifying social ends were so invariably accomplished, that Herbert and I understood nothing else to be referred to in the first standing toast of the society: which ran “Gentlemen, may the present promotion of good feeling ever reign predominant among the Finches of the Grove.”
Source: Chapter 34, Paragraph 3
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