All Charles Dickens Quotes
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
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There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
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