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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
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Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.
Charles Dickens
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I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.
Charles Dickens -
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens -
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens -
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
Charles Dickens -
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens -
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
Charles Dickens -
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
Charles Dickens -
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
Charles Dickens -
Minerva House … was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
Charles Dickens -
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.
Charles Dickens
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I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.
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Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!
Charles Dickens -
Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas.
Charles Dickens -
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
Charles Dickens -
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."
Charles Dickens
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The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
Charles Dickens -
Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.
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And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
Charles Dickens -
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!
Charles Dickens