Charles Dickens Quotes
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Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.
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We must scrunch or be scrunched.
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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He’s tough, ma’am,-tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
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I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
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Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
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I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
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What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.
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in a private letter to letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857
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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
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I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx.
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We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.
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And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
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It seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
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There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.