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Charles Dickens

  • There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth... Charles Dickens {view}
  • At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.... Charles Dickens {view}
  • In love of home, the love of country has its rise... Charles Dickens {view}
  • And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away!... Charles Dickens {view}
  • Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.... Charles Dickens {view}
  • We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.... Charles Dickens {view}
  • If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?... Charles Dickens {view}
  • Here's the rule for bargains: `Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.... Charles Dickens {view}
  • I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.... Charles Dickens {view}
  • Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.... Charles Dickens {view}
  • Philosophers are only men in armor after all.... Charles Dickens {view}
  • The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.... Charles Dickens {view}
  • All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.... Charles Dickens {view}