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Here my sister, after a fit of clappings and screamings, beat her hands upon her bosom and upon her knees, and threw her cap off, and pulled her hair down - which were the last stages on her road to frenzy. Being by this time a perfect fury and a complete success, she made a dash to the door -- Charles Dickens
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You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman. -- Charles Dickens
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Throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things -- 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 -- Charles Dickens
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It was no great gift, for there was mighty little wine left; but Signor Cavalletto, jumping to his feet, received the bottle gratefully, turned it upside down at his mouth, and smacked his lips. -- Charles Dickens
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Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog! -- Charles Dickens
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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir. -- Charles Dickens
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Always the way!" muttered the Jew to himself as he turned homewards. "The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some long-forgotten feeling; and the best of them is, that it never lasts. Ha! ha! -- Charles Dickens
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It is anything you like best, my own,' she answered, laughing with glistening eyes and standing on tiptoe to kiss him, 'if you will only humour me when the fire burns up. -- Charles Dickens
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Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life ... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these. -- Charles Dickens
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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. -- Charles Dickens
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Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London -- Charles Dickens
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At that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements -- Charles Dickens
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I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all. I have a great mind to say I wish I hadn't. Then what would you have done, I should like to know?' Mr. -- Charles Dickens
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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. -- Charles Dickens
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Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all. -- Charles Dickens
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" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute." -- Charles Dickens
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I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did! -- Charles Dickens
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. . . and he had never yet, by so much as a single spoken word, disclosed to her the state of his heart. -- Charles Dickens
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If you deserve it, and repent in action - not in words. I want no more words. -- Charles Dickens
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The heavy bell of St. Paul's cathedral rang out, announcing the death of another day. -- Charles Dickens
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Are tears the dewdrops of the heart? -- Charles Dickens
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We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy. -- Charles Dickens
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We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot! -- Charles Dickens
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Mrs. Sliderskew was in an ecstasy of delight, rolling her head about, drawing up her skinny shoulders, and wrinkling her cadaverous face into so many and such complicated forms of ugliness, as awakened the unbounded astonishment and disgust even of Mr. Squeers. -- Charles Dickens
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Then it is your opinion ... that a man should never-"
-Invest in portable property in a friend?" ... "Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him. -- Charles Dickens
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Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much. -- Charles Dickens
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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind. -- Charles Dickens
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Sir Leicester leans back in his chair, and breathlessly ejaculates, Good heaven! -- Charles Dickens
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Of him; spectators in back rows stood up, not to miss a hair of him; people on the floor of the court, laid their hands on the shoulders of the people before them, to help themselves, at anybody's cost, to a view of him - -- Charles Dickens
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Well, I'm sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa; for if your head begins to split as soon as you are married, which was the case with mine, I cannot consider that you are to be envied, though I have no doubt you think you are, as all girls do. -- Charles Dickens
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"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing." -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Guppy suspects everybody ... of entertaining ... Sinister designs upon him ... he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot; and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary -- Charles Dickens
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Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread; -- Charles Dickens
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It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else's thorns in addition to his own. -- Charles Dickens
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But what I cannot settle in my mind is that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. -- Charles Dickens
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Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares. -- Charles Dickens
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Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should. -- Charles Dickens
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But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies ... and when its breeding is professed indifference to everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think we must have lost ourselves in that same Desert of Sahara, and had better find the way out. -- Charles Dickens
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Dickens writes that an event, began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself. -- Charles Dickens
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By the way, whenever an Englishman would cry 'All right!' an American cries 'Go ahead!' which is somewhat expressive of the national character of the two countries. -- Charles Dickens
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A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion. -- Charles Dickens
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The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy. -- Charles Dickens
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Anything to vary this detestable monotony. -- Charles Dickens
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Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks. -- Charles Dickens
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He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand. -- Charles Dickens
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Love was made on these occasions in the form of bracelets; -- Charles Dickens
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A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel. -- Charles Dickens
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[ ... ] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'
'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages. -- Charles Dickens
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"O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity. -- Charles Dickens
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To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect. -- Charles Dickens
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they had a weazen little baby, with a heavy head that it couldn't hold up, and two weak staring eyes, with which it seemed to be always wondering why it had ever been born. It -- Charles Dickens
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I can't go into a long explanation before company; but I couldn't help it, upon my honour."
Upon your what?" growled Sikes, with excessive disgust. "Here! Cut me off a piece of that pie, one of you boys,to take the taste of that out of my mouth, or it'll choke me dead. -- Charles Dickens
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A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing; -- Charles Dickens
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No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark lay hidden in the dregs of it. -- Charles Dickens
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But, there is one broad sky over all the world, and whether it be blue or cloudy, the same heaven beyond -- Charles Dickens
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Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed ... The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly. -- Charles Dickens
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Give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As -- Charles Dickens
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For gracious sake, don't talk about Liberty; we have quite enough of that. -- Charles Dickens
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There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you. -- Charles Dickens
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Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is right;" an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong. -- Charles Dickens
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For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices. -- Charles Dickens
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Let me persuade you then
oh, do let me persuade you," said the child, "to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together. -- Charles Dickens
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Good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a -- Charles Dickens
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Throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was -- Charles Dickens
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the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of -- Charles Dickens
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large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer -- Charles Dickens
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Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master! -- Charles Dickens
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Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of. -- Charles Dickens
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Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge -- Charles Dickens
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Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken! -- Charles Dickens
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This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! -- Charles Dickens
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When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. -- Charles Dickens
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All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away. -- Charles Dickens
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I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm -- Charles Dickens
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Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. -- Charles Dickens
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Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same. -- Charles Dickens
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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them. -- Charles Dickens
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bad lobster in a dark cellar. It -- Charles Dickens
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The Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps -- Charles Dickens
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Why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self -- Charles Dickens
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The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life. -- Charles Dickens
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Pride is not all of one kind. -- Charles Dickens
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What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry? -- Charles Dickens
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On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels ... -- Charles Dickens
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She cannot, therefore, go too fast from Paris. Weariness of soul lies before her, as it lies behind - her Ariel has put a girdle of it round the whole earth, and it cannot be unclasped - but the imperfect remedy is always to fly from the last place where it has been experienced. Fling -- Charles Dickens
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Towards that small and ghostly hour, [Mr. Cruncher] rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature. -- Charles Dickens
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And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable. -- Charles Dickens
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Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? -- Charles Dickens
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. -- Charles Dickens
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The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own. -- Charles Dickens
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How weak am I, that I could shed tears at this reception! I who have never experienced anything else; who have never expected anything else. -- Charles Dickens
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At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell. -- Charles Dickens
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Boy, be for ever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand -- Charles Dickens
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The English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human -- Charles Dickens
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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? O yes! -- Charles Dickens
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If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [ ... ] live well and die happy. -- Charles Dickens
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It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. -- Charles Dickens
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And Ralph always wound up these mental soliloquies by arriving at the conclusion, that there was nothing like money. -- Charles Dickens
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In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted -- Charles Dickens
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Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves. -- Charles Dickens
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But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. -- Charles Dickens
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Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and shaving requires attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it.
But if he had cut the end of his nose off, he would have put a piece of sticking-plaster over it, and been quite satisfied. -- Charles Dickens
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The magic reel, which, rolling on before has led the chronicler thus far, now slackens its pace, and stops. It lies before the goal; the pursuit is at anend. -- Charles Dickens
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When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in. -- Charles Dickens
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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. -- Charles Dickens
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I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all. -- Charles Dickens
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Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more! He -- Charles Dickens
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Eighteen years a secret and unaccused prisoner in the Bastille; -- Charles Dickens
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Upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful. Eighteen years! -- Charles Dickens
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Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it. -- Charles Dickens
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You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious. -- Charles Dickens
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And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion. -- Charles Dickens
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It's not convenient," said Scrooge, "and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound?" The clerk smiled faintly. "And yet," said Scrooge, "you don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no -- Charles Dickens
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Ten minutes, good, past eleven." "My blood!" ejaculated the vexed coachman, "and not atop of Shooter's yet! Tst! Yah! Get on with you!" The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip in a most decided negative, made a decided scramble for it, and the three other horses followed -- Charles Dickens
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My blood!" ejaculated the vexed coachman, "and not atop of Shooter's yet! Tst! Yah! Get on with you!" The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip -- Charles Dickens
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... 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! -- Charles Dickens
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I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true. -- Charles Dickens
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He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment? -- Charles Dickens
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Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. -- Charles Dickens
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His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles! -- Charles Dickens
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I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, -- Charles Dickens
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And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out! -- Charles Dickens
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. -- Charles Dickens
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The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making. -- Charles Dickens
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If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive any crime except that. -- Charles Dickens
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Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. -- Charles Dickens
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Nature forgot to shade him off, I think ... A little too boisterous
like the sea. A little too
vehement
like a bull who has made up his mind to consider every
colour scarlet. But I grant a sledge-hammering sort of merit in him! -- Charles Dickens
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This scroll, majestic in its severe simplicity, illuminated a little slip of front garden abutting on the thirsty high-road, where a few of the dustiest of leaves hung their dismal heads and led a life of choking. -- Charles Dickens
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Now, what I want is, Facts ... Facts alone are wanted in life. -- Charles Dickens
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. -- Charles Dickens
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If you find yourselves in cuttings or in tunnels, don't you play no secret games, Keep your whistles going, and let's know where you are. -- Charles Dickens
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In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley. -- Charles Dickens
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Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. p. -- Charles Dickens
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You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me. -- Charles Dickens
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It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down. -- Charles Dickens
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Earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important -- Charles Dickens
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I think I know the delights of freedom -- Charles Dickens
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly. -- Charles Dickens
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When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. -- Charles Dickens
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Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. -- Charles Dickens
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We produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary. -- Charles Dickens
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As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can't prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses, or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets unmuzzled -- Charles Dickens
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Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. -- Charles Dickens
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The view, as I have said, is charming; but in the day you must keep the lattice-blinds close shut, or the sun would drive you mad; and when the sun goes down you must shut up all the windows, or the mosquitoes would tempt you to commit suicide. So -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Gabriel Parsons led the way to the house. He was a sugar-baker, who mistook rudeness for honesty, and abrupt bluntness for an open and candid manner; many besides Gabriel mistake bluntness for sincerity. -- Charles Dickens
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If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off. -- Charles Dickens
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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. -- Charles Dickens
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Although to restless and ardent minds, morning may be the fitting season for exertion and activity, it is not always at that time that hope is strongest or the spirit most sanguine and buoyant. -- Charles Dickens
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I know this messenger, guard," said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road - assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. "He may come close; there's nothing wrong. -- Charles Dickens
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All the passengers are very dismal, and seem to have tremendous secrets weighing on their minds. There is no conversation, no laughter, no cheerfulness, no sociality, except in spitting; and that is done in silent fellowship round the stove, when the meal is over. -- Charles Dickens
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It is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. -- Charles Dickens
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I never heerd ... nor read of nor see in picters, any angel in tights and gaiters ... but ... he's a reg'lar thoroughbred angel for all that. -- Charles Dickens
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Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea. -- Charles Dickens
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Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking. -- Charles Dickens
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Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. -- Charles Dickens
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The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equalled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done. -- Charles Dickens
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Looking towards the open window, I saw light wreaths from Joe's pipe floating there, and I fancied it was like a blessing from Joe, - not obtruded on me or paraded before me, but pervading the air we shared together. I put -- Charles Dickens
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My dearest girl, dearer to me than anything in life, if you are unhappy, let me share your unhappiness. If you are in need of help or counsel, let me try to give it to you. If you have indeed a burden on your heart, let me try to lighten it. For whom do I live now, Agnes, if it is not for you! -- Charles Dickens
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But she never was polite unless there was company. -- Charles Dickens
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Her [Caddy] father released her, took out his pocket handkerchief, and sat down on the stairs with his head against the wall. I hope he found some consolation in walls. I almost think he did. -- Charles Dickens
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it might prove to be worth, and no customers coming in to help him to any other, Mr. Barsad paid for what he had drunk, and took his leave: taking occasion to say, -- Charles Dickens
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We were very happy; and that evening, as the last of its race, and destined evermore to close that volume of my life, will never pass out of my memory. -- Charles Dickens
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The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid. -- Charles Dickens
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But the woman who stood knitting looked up steadily, and looked the Marquis in the face. -- Charles Dickens
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Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up -- Charles Dickens
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We walked round the ruined garden twice or thrice more, and it was all in bloom for me. If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance. -- Charles Dickens
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Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing. -- Charles Dickens
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What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered! -- Charles Dickens
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said Mr. Toots, whose fervour of acquiescence was greatly heightened by his entire ignorance of the Captain's meaning. -- Charles Dickens
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He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach. -- Charles Dickens
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I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in ... -- Charles Dickens
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I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits -- Charles Dickens
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My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a happy man. I am bent upon it. -- Charles Dickens
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A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow. -- Charles Dickens
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Contents Book the First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows -- Charles Dickens
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And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. -- Charles Dickens
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I shall be there before the commencement. -- Charles Dickens
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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is
as the light called human life is
at its coming and its going. -- Charles Dickens
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There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. -- Charles Dickens
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Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes. -- Charles Dickens
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accepting his patronage as he accepted every incident of the labyrinthian world in which he had got lost. -- Charles Dickens
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Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. -- Charles Dickens
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Alice!" said the visitor's mild voice, "am I late to-night?"
"You always seem late, but are always early. -- Charles Dickens
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My Uriah,' said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood in the way, and I joined in them myself. Umble we are, umble we have been, umble we shall ever be,' said Mrs. Heep. -- Charles Dickens
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Your voice and music are the same to me. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Snagsby, as a timid man, is accustomed to cough with a variety of expressions, and so to save words. -- Charles Dickens
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It's the whole point of the thing, you know - that, and leaving the business to take care of itself, as it seems to have made up its mind not to take care of me. -- Charles Dickens
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He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it - nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes. -- Charles Dickens
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It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in. -- Charles Dickens
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You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me. -- Charles Dickens
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"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Tracy Tupman - the too susceptible Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses - love. -- Charles Dickens
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I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. I foresaw what was coming, and I felt that this time I really was gone. -- Charles Dickens
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Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade0 -- Charles Dickens
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The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size. -- Charles Dickens
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God bless us, every one! -- Charles Dickens
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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never. -- Charles Dickens
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The fair Volumnia, being one of those sprightly girls who cannot long continue silent without imminent peril of seizure by the dragon Boredom, soon indicates the approach of that monster with a series of undisguisable yawns. Finding -- Charles Dickens
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There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen. -- Charles Dickens
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. -- Charles Dickens
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Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. I am tickled and twitched all over. Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels. -- Charles Dickens
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There are noble mausoleums rooted for centuries in retired glades of parks among the growing timber and the fern, which perhaps hold fewer noble secrets than walk abroad among men, shut up in the breast of Mr. Tulkinghorn. -- Charles Dickens
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Hot punch is a pleasant thing, gentlemen
an extremely pleasant thing under any circumstances
but in that snug old parlour, before the roaring fire, with the wind blowing outside till every timber in the old house creaked again, Tom Smart found it perfectly delightful. -- Charles Dickens
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She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast. -- Charles Dickens
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Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see. -- Charles Dickens
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She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself. -- Charles Dickens
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"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy." -- Charles Dickens
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I am afraid to think of what I might have done, on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror. -- Charles Dickens
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Each spoke in her own language; neither understood the other's words; both were very watchful, and intent to deduce from look and manner, what the unintelligible words meant. -- Charles Dickens
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Joe gave a reproachful cough,as much as to say,Well,told you so. -- Charles Dickens
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None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the whirling wheel of life brings the right perception with it. -- Charles Dickens
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I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable
indescribable
my misery amazing. -- Charles Dickens
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Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. -- Charles Dickens
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Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them. -- Charles Dickens
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Every man thinks his own geese swans. -- Charles Dickens
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From the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman -- Charles Dickens
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She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble -- Charles Dickens
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Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country. -- Charles Dickens
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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it? -- Charles Dickens
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I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgotten. -- Charles Dickens
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And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it. -- Charles Dickens
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Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER L MR. TOOTS'S COMPLAINT -- Charles Dickens
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For now, the very breath of the beans and clover whispered to my heart that the day must come when it would be well for my memory that others walking in the sunshine should be softened as they thought of me. -- Charles Dickens
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My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it. -- Charles Dickens
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This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in. -- Charles Dickens
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It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither. -- Charles Dickens
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"Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?" -- Charles Dickens
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Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "and therefore I am about to raise your salary! -- Charles Dickens
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*I love climbing mountains in all fields (Whatever was this fields).
*I love tranquility and it is more for me precious than money.
*Honesty is a few valuable nowadays.
after willing of God and Step by step with Concentration i will achieve What I want to. -- Charles Dickens
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The First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop -- Charles Dickens
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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you. -- Charles Dickens
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After two hours and a half of this odd travelling (including a stoppage at a small town, where we were saluted by a gun considerably bigger than our own chimney), we reached Hartford, -- Charles Dickens
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When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become. -- Charles Dickens
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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all! ... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. -- Charles Dickens
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Time, consoler of affliction and softener of anger -- Charles Dickens
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All of which Flora said with so much headlong vehemence as if she really believed it. There is not much doubt that when she worked herself into full mermaid condition, she did actually believe whatever she said in it. -- Charles Dickens
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Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time. -- Charles Dickens
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In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight. -- Charles Dickens
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As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consideration of all his poor blindnesses and errors, ended in the words, "I am the resurrection and the life. -- Charles Dickens
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And you're welcome to whatever you put a name to. Thus entreated, the two gentlemen (Mr. Weevle especially) put names to so many things that in course of time they find it difficult to put a name to anything quite distinctly, -- Charles Dickens
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The plain rule is, to do nothing in the dark, to be party to nothing under-handed or mysterious, and never to put his foot down where he cannot see ground. -- Charles Dickens
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I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers. -- Charles Dickens
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"Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy." -- Charles Dickens
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Don't worry me now, Fagin!' replied the girl, raising her head languidly. 'If Bill has not done it this time, he will another. He has done many a good job for you, and will do many more when he can; and when he can't, he won't, so no more about that. -- Charles Dickens
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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. -- Charles Dickens
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He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence. He had come back, to save a citizen's life, and to bear his testimony, at whatever personal hazard, to the truth. -- Charles Dickens
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Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally -- Charles Dickens
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What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather? -- Charles Dickens
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And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming. -- Charles Dickens
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A curious monomaniac,' said Eugene. 'The man seems to believe that everybody was acquainted with his mother! -- Charles Dickens
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I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play. -- Charles Dickens
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. -- Charles Dickens
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There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death. -- Charles Dickens
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Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement. -- Charles Dickens
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Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance! -- Charles Dickens
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There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time. Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none. -- Charles Dickens
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. -- Charles Dickens
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O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! -- Charles Dickens
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Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two. -- Charles Dickens
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"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned ... " -- Charles Dickens
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. -- Charles Dickens
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All partings foreshadow the great final one. -- Charles Dickens
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They're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her. -- Charles Dickens
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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her. -- Charles Dickens
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The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm. -- Charles Dickens
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The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. -- Charles Dickens
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A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. -- Charles Dickens
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There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them. -- Charles Dickens
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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
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Why, my girl,' cried Mr Meagles, more breathless than before, 'how did you come over? -- Charles Dickens
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Courage, dear miss! Courage! Business! The worst will be over in a moment; it is but passing the room-door, and the worst -- Charles Dickens
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Arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of -- Charles Dickens
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With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing. -- Charles Dickens
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Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law. -- Charles Dickens
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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are. -- Charles Dickens
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. -- Charles Dickens
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sweeping out of shops, and the -- Charles Dickens
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He looked about him in a confused way, as if he had lost his place in the book of his remembrance; and he turned his face to the fire, and spread his hands broader on his knees, and lifted them off and put them on again. -- Charles Dickens
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Wo-ho!" said the coachman. "So, then! One more pull and you're at the top and be damned to you, for I have had trouble enough to get you to it! - Joe! -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XV* SHEWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE -- Charles Dickens
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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal. -- Charles Dickens
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Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously. -- Charles Dickens
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If I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime. -- Charles Dickens
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The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness. -- Charles Dickens
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My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him! -- Charles Dickens
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Marley was dead: to begin with. -- Charles Dickens
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An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music. -- Charles Dickens
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All that is loathsome, drooping, or decayed is here. -- Charles Dickens
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As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal. -- Charles Dickens
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[ ... ] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable. -- Charles Dickens
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Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air. -- Charles Dickens
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The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy! -- Charles Dickens
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His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages. -- Charles Dickens
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The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water. -- Charles Dickens
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I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it. -- Charles Dickens
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Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. -- Charles Dickens
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What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do?
-Darney to Lucie -- Charles Dickens
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Halloa!" the guard replied. -- Charles Dickens
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Still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine. -- Charles Dickens
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But love is blind; and Nathaniel had a cast in his eye; and perhaps these two circumstances, taken together, prevented his seeing the matter in its proper light. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXXII OF THE HAPPY LIFE OLIVER BEGAN TO LEAD WITH HIS KIND FRIENDS -- Charles Dickens
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It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it. -- Charles Dickens
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Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food. -- Charles Dickens
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Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets ... -- Charles Dickens
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but I was afraid of spending the few pence I had, and was even more afraid of the vicious looks of the trampers I had met or overtaken. I sought no shelter, therefore, but the sky; and -- Charles Dickens
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A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pitty in all the glittering multitude. -- Charles Dickens
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My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades. -- Charles Dickens
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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. -- Charles Dickens
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Good day, citizeness. -- Charles Dickens
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Well! And hallo you! -- Charles Dickens
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A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!" Which all the family re-echoed. "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all. -- Charles Dickens
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We all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues. -- Charles Dickens
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London was decidedly overrated. -- Charles Dickens
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Use - to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER; CONNECTED WITH WHOM, VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED, APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY -- Charles Dickens
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Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback. -- Charles Dickens
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fellow,' said the Father of the Marshalsea, laying his hand upon his shoulder, and mildly rallying him - mildly, because of his weakness, poor dear soul; -- Charles Dickens
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With a weary and yet a pleased smile, and with an action as if he stretched his little figure out to rest, the child heaved his body on the sustaining arm, and seeking Rokesmith's face with his lips, said:
'A kiss for the boofer lady. -- Charles Dickens
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Us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, -- Charles Dickens
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. -- Charles Dickens
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Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one,
A few feet of cold earth, when life is done;
A stone at the head, a stone at the feet,
A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat;
Rank grass over head, and damp clay around,
Brave lodgings for one, these, in holy ground! -- Charles Dickens
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. -- Charles Dickens
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Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease! -- Charles Dickens
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Evil communications corrupt good manners. -- Charles Dickens
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When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line. -- Charles Dickens
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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. -- Charles Dickens
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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. -- Charles Dickens
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I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail. -- Charles Dickens
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Perhaps the mourners learn to look to the blue sky by day, and to the stars by night, and to think that the dead are there, and not in graves -- Charles Dickens
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I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen, ... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen. -- Charles Dickens
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She must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand. -- Charles Dickens
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Light 'em up again!' said Mr Meagles. -- Charles Dickens
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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief. -- Charles Dickens
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For our path in life ... is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them! -- Charles Dickens
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. -- Charles Dickens
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Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.) -- Charles Dickens
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Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors, and made to support the Party. -- Charles Dickens
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full well knowing that, whatever little motes my beamy eyes may have descried in theirs, they belong to a kind, generous, large-hearted, and great people. -- Charles Dickens
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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 have said that they were truly happy; and without strong affection and humanity of heart,
and gratitude to that Being whose code is Mercy, and whose great
attribute is Benevolence to all things that breathe, happiness
can never be attained. -- Charles Dickens
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It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was -- Charles Dickens
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It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed. -- Charles Dickens
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Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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No, Mr. Carton. I am sure that the best part of it might still be; I am sure that you might be much, much worthier of yourself. -- Charles Dickens
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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
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Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself. -- Charles Dickens
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I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you! -- Charles Dickens
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The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. -- Charles Dickens
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"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!" -- Charles Dickens
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The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one. -- Charles Dickens
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Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp. -- Charles Dickens
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My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. -- Charles Dickens
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She indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries. -- Charles Dickens
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Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and have not outlived you yet. Welcome, old projects, and old loves, however fleeting, to your nooks among the steadier lights that burn around us -- Charles Dickens
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Yes. I'm going to take a holiday. More than that; I'm going to take a walk. More than that; I'm going to ask you to take a walk with me. -- Charles Dickens
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[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. -- Charles Dickens
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If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast. -- Charles Dickens
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I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar. -- Charles Dickens
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Them which is of other naturs thinks different. -- Charles Dickens
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What I said had nothing to do with you. Why need you go trying on other people's hats? -- Charles Dickens
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I can see her. Come close to me, Floy, and tell them," whispered the dying boy, "that the face of the picture of Christ on the staircase at school is not divine enough; the light from it is shining on me now, and the water is shining too, and rippling so fast, so fast." The evening light shone -- Charles Dickens
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Lookee here, Pip, at what is said to you by a true friend. Which this to you the true friend say. If you can't get to be on common through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy. -- Charles Dickens
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He brought in the bread, cheese, and beer, with many high encomiums upon their excellence. -- Charles Dickens
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Grown used to it. He had taught himself a language down here, - if only to know it by sight, and to have formed his own crude ideas of its pronunciation, could be called learning it. -- Charles Dickens
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There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with -- Charles Dickens
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What was over couldn't be begun, and what couldn't be cured must be endured; -- Charles Dickens
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Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. -- Charles Dickens
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I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth. -- Charles Dickens
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But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. -- Charles Dickens
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I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty. -- Charles Dickens
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. -- Charles Dickens
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There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver. -- Charles Dickens
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Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed -- Charles Dickens
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For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them. -- Charles Dickens
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I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness -- Charles Dickens
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Please, sir, I want some more. -- Charles Dickens
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If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations. -- Charles Dickens
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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen! -- Charles Dickens
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Clasped in my embrace, I held the source of every worthy aspiration I ever had; the centre of myself, the circle of my life, my own ... my love of whom was founded on a rock! -- Charles Dickens
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The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night. -- Charles Dickens
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The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose. -- Charles Dickens
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What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospection I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly. -- Charles Dickens
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The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire. -- Charles Dickens
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Toby's nose was very red, and his eye-lids were very red, and he winked very much, and his shoulders were very near his ears and his legs were very stiff, and altogether he was evidently a long way upon the frosty of cool. -- Charles Dickens
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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. -- Charles Dickens
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It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black. -- Charles Dickens
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Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world. -- Charles Dickens
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Carton," she answered, after an agitated pause, "the secret is yours, not mine, and I promise to respect it. -- Charles Dickens
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Come in,
come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before! -- Charles Dickens
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He did each single thing as if he did nothing else. -- Charles Dickens
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Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up ... -- Charles Dickens
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Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. -- Charles Dickens
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EXPLANATORY NOTES A NOTE ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF OLIVER TWIST -- Charles Dickens
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Of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the -- Charles Dickens
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'It wasn't the wine,' murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. 'It was the salmon.' (Somehow or other, it never is the wine, in these cases.) -- Charles Dickens
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Technological innovations had shifted the basis of England's economy from agriculture to industry between 1750 and 1850. The development of steam power and a boom -- Charles Dickens
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There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion. The name of this article was Twemlow. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XI TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICExs -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXVIII LOOKS, AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS WITH HIS? ADVENTURES -- Charles Dickens
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I kissed her cheek as she turned it to me. I think I would have gone through a great deal to kiss her cheek. But I felt the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing. -- Charles Dickens
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. -- Charles Dickens
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The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. -- Charles Dickens
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And it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces. -- Charles Dickens
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In this round world of many circles within circles, do we make a weary journey from the high grade to the low, to find at last that they lie close together, that the two extremes touch, and that our journey's end is but our starting-place? -- Charles Dickens
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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. -- Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests! -- Charles Dickens
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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. -- Charles Dickens
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Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste. -- Charles Dickens
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"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man. -- Charles Dickens
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Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY, CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION -- Charles Dickens
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Again the mender of roads went through the whole performance; in which he ought to have been perfect by that time, seeing that it had been the ingallible resource and indispenable enternainment for his village during a whole year. -- Charles Dickens
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Brag is good dog, holdfast is better! -- Charles Dickens
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My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father! -- Charles Dickens
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A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all? -- Charles Dickens
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Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water. -- Charles Dickens
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The wind's in the east ... I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. -- Charles Dickens
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. -- Charles Dickens
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We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner. -- Charles Dickens
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One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow. -- Charles Dickens
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! -- Charles Dickens
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He had a certain air of being a handsome man
which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man
which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. -- Charles Dickens
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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. -- Charles Dickens
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There was a little too much of the best intentions going on -- Charles Dickens
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Its other name was Satis, which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three
or all one to me
for enough ... but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else. -- Charles Dickens
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And I may now avow, Mr Clennam,' said he, with a cordial shake of the hand, 'that if I had looked high and low for a partner, I believe I could not have found one more to my mind.' 'I say the same,' said Clennam. 'And -- Charles Dickens
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But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply. -- Charles Dickens
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. -- Charles Dickens
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It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. -- Charles Dickens
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Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him. -- Charles Dickens
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With a most intent and searching gaze -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S. WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND -- Charles Dickens
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy. -- Charles Dickens
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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others. -- Charles Dickens
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So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime. -- Charles Dickens
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. -- Charles Dickens
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I perceive your tongue is," returned madame; "and what the tongue is, I suppose the man is. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall. -- Charles Dickens
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External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. -- Charles Dickens
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The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the -- Charles Dickens
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A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug! -- Charles Dickens
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before
more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. -- Charles Dickens
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What do you mean, Phib? asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain. -- Charles Dickens
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People must be amuthed. -- Charles Dickens
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You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from morning to night. If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name -- Charles Dickens
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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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But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds. -- Charles Dickens
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Some remote fragment of Main Line to somewhere else, there was, which was going to ruin the Money Market if it failed, and Church and State if it succeeded, and (of course), the Constitution, whether or no; -- Charles Dickens
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Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy ... -- Charles Dickens
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Had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately. As the young woman spoke, he -- Charles Dickens
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I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER LII THE JEW'S LAST NIGHT ALIVE -- Charles Dickens
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In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven. -- Charles Dickens
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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. -- Charles Dickens
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But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same. -- Charles Dickens
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The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance. -- Charles Dickens
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My poor girl, what is the matter?' She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots. 'It's nothing to you what's the matter. It don't signify to any one. -- Charles Dickens
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Growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here. -- Charles Dickens
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It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster. -- Charles Dickens
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"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?" -- Charles Dickens
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It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. -- Charles Dickens
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Oh, yes, I know all about it,' replied the girl, laughing hysterically; and shaking her head from side to side, with a poor assumption of indifference. -- Charles Dickens
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Full-Private Number One in the Awkward Squad of the rank and file of life was Sloppy, and yet had his glimmering notions of standing true to the Colours. -- Charles Dickens
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His pain is over. It's better as it is!' Mrs. Tugby tried to comfort her with kindness. Mr. Tugby tried philosophy. -- Charles Dickens
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I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS -- Charles Dickens
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He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave. -- Charles Dickens
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Take warning of the consequences of being nobody's enemy but your own. -- Charles Dickens
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It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off. -- Charles Dickens
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Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog !
Grrrr! -- Charles Dickens
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. -- Charles Dickens
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Broken aqueducts, left in the most picturesque and beautiful clusters of arches; broken temples; broken tombs. A desert of decay, sombre and desolate beyond all expression; and with a history in every stone that strews the ground. -- Charles Dickens
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Christmas, and the end of the year, is definitely a time when people try their hardest to begin afresh, "a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely". (Dickens - "A Christmas Carol") - and JEAN -- Charles Dickens
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It's a poor heart that never rejoices. Jane, go down to the cellar, and fetch a bottle of Upset ginger-beer. -- Charles Dickens
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We are a bed business, and a coffee-room business. We are not a general dining business, nor do we wish it. In consequence, when diners drop in, we know what to give 'em as will keep 'em away another time. -- Charles Dickens
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The United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company. -- Charles Dickens
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To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify. -- Charles Dickens
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She said the word often enough, and there could be no doubt that she meant to say it; but if the often repeated word had been hate instead of love - despair - revenge - dire death - it could not have sounded from her lips more like a curse. (29.88) -- Charles Dickens
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It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished. -- Charles Dickens
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Keeping all things in their places. Everybody was dressed for a Fancy Ball that was never to leave off. From the Palace of the Tuileries, through Monseigneur and the whole Court, through the Chambers, the Tribunals of Justice, and all society (except the scarecrows), -- Charles Dickens
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VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A -- Charles Dickens
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Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head -- Charles Dickens
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But, the comfort was, that all the company at the grand hotel of Monseigneur were perfectly dressed. If the Day of Judgment had only been ascertained to be a dress day, everybody there would have been eternally correct. -- Charles Dickens
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IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country -- Charles Dickens
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In Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture -- Charles Dickens
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Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions. -- Charles Dickens
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Oliver Twist has asked for more! -- Charles Dickens
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It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets. -- Charles Dickens
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It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling! -- Charles Dickens
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And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. -- Charles Dickens
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Her first proceeding there was to unlock a tall press, bring out several bottles, and pour some of the contents of each into my mouth. I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing. -- Charles Dickens
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The law is a ass, Sir! -- Charles Dickens
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There is excellent provision made of dainty new bread, crusty twists, cool fresh butter, thin slices of ham, tongue, and German sausage, and delicate little rows of anchovies nestling in parsley, not to mention new-laid eggs, to be brought up warm in a napkin, and hot buttered toast. For -- Charles Dickens
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The mad joy over the prisoners who were saved, had astounded him scarcely less than the mad ferocity against those who were cut to pieces. -- Charles Dickens
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Charles, throughout his imprisonment, had had to pay heavily for his bad food, and for his guard, and towards the living of the poorer prisoners. -- Charles Dickens
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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. -- Charles Dickens
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My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse. -- Charles Dickens
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He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast. -- Charles Dickens
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The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. -- Charles Dickens
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varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous -- Charles Dickens
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I saw that the bride within the bridal dress has withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes -- Charles Dickens
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Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted -- Charles Dickens
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He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world, and he cultivated a taste for its stores of knowledge and fancy. -- Charles Dickens
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In Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door -- Charles Dickens
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"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me." -- Charles Dickens
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Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards -- Charles Dickens
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Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman. -- Charles Dickens
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Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do."
"But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
"Shout with the largest," replied Mr. Pickwick.
Volumes could not have said more. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and
we will not say fled; firstly because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat ... -- Charles Dickens
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Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond. -- Charles Dickens
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I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind. -- Charles Dickens
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It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646 -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead. -- Charles Dickens
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To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering. -- Charles Dickens
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he would expatiate with great vehemence on the misery of idle and lazy habits; and would enforce upon them the necessity of an active life, by sending them supperless to bed. On -- Charles Dickens
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How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me. -- Charles Dickens
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With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket again [ ... ] -- Charles Dickens
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Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such. -- Charles Dickens
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The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else. -- Charles Dickens
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I always loved that boy as if he'd been my
my
my own grandfather. -- Charles Dickens
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The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow
to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener. -- Charles Dickens
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Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one? -- Charles Dickens
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Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty. -- Charles Dickens
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But it's wonderful,' said Mr. Giles, when he had explained, 'what a man will do, when his blood is up. I should have committed murder - I know I should - if we'd caught one of them rascals. -- Charles Dickens
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In that one glimpse of a better nature, born as it was in selfish thoughts, the rich man felt himself friendless, childless, and alone. -- Charles Dickens
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Went down into a modest life of usefulness and happiness. Went down to give a mother's care, in the fulness of time, to Fanny's neglected children no less than to their own, and to leave that lady going into Society for ever and a day. -- Charles Dickens
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For my love was founded on a rock, and it endures! -- Charles Dickens
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As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind. -- Charles Dickens
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She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch of dread or horror. -- Charles Dickens
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And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes?"
Rick
"Indeed I can. What am I but another dreamer, Rick?"
Guardian -- Charles Dickens
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top-boots - not to keep the reader any longer in suspense, in short, the eyes were the wandering eyes of Mr. Grummer, and the body was the body of the same gentleman. -- Charles Dickens
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Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. -- Charles Dickens
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Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work. -- Charles Dickens
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Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. -- Charles Dickens
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In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life. -- Charles Dickens
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She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived. -- Charles Dickens
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He wouldn't let his son have any name if he could take it from him," returned the old lady. "Look at the son's dress!" It certainly was plain - threadbare - almost shabby. "Yet the father must be garnished and tricked out," said the old lady, "because of his deportment. I'd deport him! Transport -- Charles Dickens
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We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls. -- Charles Dickens
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I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be. -- Charles Dickens
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Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so. -- Charles Dickens
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The night was as dark by this time as it would be until morning; and what light we had, seemed to come from the river than the sky, as the oars in their dipping struck at a few reflected stars. -- Charles Dickens
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The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again. -- Charles Dickens
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I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, -- Charles Dickens
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Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, -- Charles Dickens
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Judges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place - then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement - -- Charles Dickens
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Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book -- Charles Dickens
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"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?" -- Charles Dickens
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Upon which, every man looked at his neighbour, and then all cast down their eyes and sat silent. Except one man, who got up and went out. -- Charles Dickens
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I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But -- Charles Dickens
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I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything! -- Charles Dickens
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Paul did not like Mrs. Pipchin, but he would sit in his arm-chair and look at her. Her ugliness seemed to fascinate him. -- Charles Dickens
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I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no - sympathy - sentiment - nonsense. -- Charles Dickens
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No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused -- Charles Dickens
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But, forasmuch as all favourite legends must be associated with the affections, and as many more people fall in love than commit murder - which it may be hoped, howsoever bad we are, will continue until the end of the world to be the dispensation under which we shall live - the -- Charles Dickens
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APPENDIX 4 THE THIEVES' LANGUAGE IN OLIVER TWIST -- Charles Dickens
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He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice favour runs in favour of two. -- Charles Dickens
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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If he was only sorry, he wouldn't look at me as he does. I am only sorry, and it makes me feel kinder. -- Charles Dickens
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Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie. -- Charles Dickens
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The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him. -- Charles Dickens
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Where may he be at present?' Mrs. Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative. 'He -- Charles Dickens
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The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. -- Charles Dickens
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did not mind this -- Charles Dickens
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He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl. -- Charles Dickens
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...he walked up and down through life. -- Charles Dickens
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Good gracious, Arthur, - I should say Mr Clennam, far more proper - the climb we have had to get up here and how ever to get down -- Charles Dickens
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I stole her heart away and put ice in its place. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely any gentleman would deem it a pleasure and an honour to have his neck broken, in return for such a compliment from such a source. -- Charles Dickens
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When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence. -- Charles Dickens
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Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. -- Charles Dickens
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There were some ragged children in another corner; and in a small recess, opposite the door, there lay upon the ground, something covered with an old blanket. -- Charles Dickens
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The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave. -- Charles Dickens
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The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever. -- Charles Dickens
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He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions. -- Charles Dickens
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Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is! -- Charles Dickens
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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to
peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find
such a blessed sense of rest! -- Charles Dickens
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Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. -- Charles Dickens
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Look at me,' said Miss Havisham. 'You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born? -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXXVI IS A VERY SHORT ONE, AND MAY APPEAR OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ITS PLACE. BUT IT SHOULD BE READ NOTWITHSTANDING, AS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST, AND A KEY TO ONE THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN ITS TIME ARRIVES -- Charles Dickens
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Blind, blind, blind . . . -- Charles Dickens
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What I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction
which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me -- Charles Dickens
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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn. -- Charles Dickens
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If Nicholas be not always found to be blameless or agreeable, he is not always intended to appear so. He is a young man of an impetuous temper and of little or no experience; and I saw no reason why such a hero should be lifted out of nature. -- Charles Dickens
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Master Bates saw something so exquisitely ludicrous in this reply, that he burst into another laugh; which laugh, meeting the coffee he was drinking, and carrying it down some wrong channel, very nearly terminated in his premature suffocation. -- Charles Dickens
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. -- Charles Dickens
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And at the end of the first twelvemonth had arrived at the conclusion, from which he never afterwards departed, that all the fancies of the poets, and lessons of the sages, were a mere collection of words and grammar, and had no other meaning in the world. -- Charles Dickens
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Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good. -- Charles Dickens
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The sun,
the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man
burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. -- Charles Dickens
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Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. -- Charles Dickens
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as the most stupendous objects in nature are but vast collections of minute particles, so the slightest and least considered trifles make up the sum of human happiness or misery. -- Charles Dickens
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I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going ... My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode. -- Charles Dickens
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Neither are the pig-skins, in common use to hold wine, and hung out in the sun in all directions, by any means ornamental, as they always preserve the form of very bloated pigs, with their heads and legs cut off, dangling upside-down by their own tails. -- Charles Dickens
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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. -- Charles Dickens
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It's only about young Twist, my dear,' said Mr. Sowerberry. 'A very good-looking boy, that, my dear. -- Charles Dickens
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. -- Charles Dickens
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The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine -- Charles Dickens
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They seemed so like the rats he had seen outside. -- Charles Dickens
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Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires. -- Charles Dickens
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And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom. -- Charles Dickens
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Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business! -- Charles Dickens
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Arthur Clennam came to a squeezed house, with a ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square. -- Charles Dickens
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. -- Charles Dickens
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I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. -- Charles Dickens
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Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking? -- Charles Dickens
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Ah! people need to rise early, to see the sun in all his splendour, for his brightness seldom lasts the day through. The morning of day and the morning of life are but too much alike. -- Charles Dickens
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I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled. -- Charles Dickens
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He never thought that she saw in him what no one else could see. He never thought that in the whole world there were no other eyes that looked upon him with the same light and strength as hers. -- Charles Dickens
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Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men. -- Charles Dickens
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I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo! -- Charles Dickens
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Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes - gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. -- Charles Dickens
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It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town. -- Charles Dickens
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I will not allow anybody to interfere," said Mrs. Pocket. "I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference. -- Charles Dickens
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He is a musical man, an Amateur, but might've been a Professional. He is an Artist, too; an Amateur, but might've been a Professional. He is a man of attainments and of captivating manners. -- Charles Dickens
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I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head. -- Charles Dickens
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Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth -- Charles Dickens
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A howling corner in the winter time, a dusty corner in the summer time, an undesirable corner at the best of times. -- Charles Dickens
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Brave and generous friend, will you let me ask you one last question? I am very ignorant, and it troubles me - just a little. -- Charles Dickens
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Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER LX CHIEFLY MATRIMONIAL -- Charles Dickens
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Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh -- Charles Dickens
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Tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, -- Charles Dickens
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. -- Charles Dickens
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Personal faintness, and an overpowering personal candour, were the distinguishing features of Mrs Billickin's organization. She came languishing out from her own exclusive back parlour, with the air of having been expressly brought-to for the purpose, from an accumulation of several swoons. -- Charles Dickens
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. -- Charles Dickens
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He [Mr. Snagsby] is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. He tends to meekness and obesity. -- Charles Dickens
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Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to a stranger at the first glance as this does. -- Charles Dickens
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"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me." -- Charles Dickens
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The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the -- Charles Dickens
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Persons don't make their own faces, and it's no more my fault if mine is a good one than it is other people's fault if theirs is a bad one. -- Charles Dickens
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Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought, -- Charles Dickens
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I have been able to raise my thoughts to Him who was put to death, that we might have hope and comfort here to-day. I think you were sent to me by Heaven. -- Charles Dickens
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...[their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up. -- Charles Dickens
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There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children, and were always having more. -- Charles Dickens
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He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. -- Charles Dickens
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But the bequest is involved in legal disputes, and pending them the work has stopped; so that like many other great undertakings in America, even this is rather going to be done one of these days, than doing now. -- Charles Dickens
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Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly believed, when they had bowed a customer out, still to keep on bowing in the empty office until they bowed another customer in. -- Charles Dickens
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Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! -- Charles Dickens
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STRONGLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE POSITION, THAT THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE IS NOT A RAILWAY -- Charles Dickens
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Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying. -- Charles Dickens
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It was with extreme difficulty that Nipper, the black-eyed, who looked on steadfastly, contained herself at this crisis, and, until the subsequent departure of Mrs. Chick. But the nursery being at length free of visitors, she made herself some recompense for her late restraint. -- Charles Dickens
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope. -- Charles Dickens
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I don't know how it is,' said Peggotty, 'unless it's on account of being stupid, but my head never can pick and choose its people. They come and they go, and they don't come and they don't go, just as they like. I wonder what's become of her? -- Charles Dickens
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Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of the basket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not have believed unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless woman could have snored so much. -- Charles Dickens
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Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, Come back, my child, come back! -- Charles Dickens
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hippo-comedietta -- Charles Dickens
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I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude. -- Charles Dickens
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Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. -- Charles Dickens
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Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing -- Charles Dickens
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It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red. It was taken to pieces, like a toy-puzzle for a young Devil, and was put together again when the occasion wanted it. -- Charles Dickens
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Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the duration of her walk. -- Charles Dickens
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The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself. -- Charles Dickens
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France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance -- Charles Dickens
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Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured -- Charles Dickens
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ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed -- Charles Dickens
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Was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, -- Charles Dickens
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State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. -- Charles Dickens
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Have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, -- Charles Dickens
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It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott -- Charles Dickens
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For ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently -- Charles Dickens
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thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a -- Charles Dickens
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The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much, and was in a fair way of being reduced to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness for life, by the ill usage he had received. -- Charles Dickens
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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. -- Charles Dickens
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I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner. -- Charles Dickens
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He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things; but I'd rather listen to them all a dozen times, than to that Monks once. -- Charles Dickens
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He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young. -- Charles Dickens
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VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. -- Charles Dickens
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The loveliest things in life are but shadows; they come and go, and change and fade away ... -- Charles Dickens
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When he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears. -- Charles Dickens
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In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value -- Charles Dickens
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In short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value. -- Charles Dickens
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I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her -- Charles Dickens
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They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. -- Charles Dickens
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This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy. -- Charles Dickens
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It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same, speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home. -- Charles Dickens
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Do you imagine
" Mr. Lorry had begun, when Miss Pross took him up short with:
"Never imagine anything. Have no imagination at all."
"I stand corrected; do you suppose
you go so far as to suppose, sometimes?"
"Now and then," said Miss Pross. -- Charles Dickens
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If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward. -- Charles Dickens
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They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon. -- Charles Dickens
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Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to. -- Charles Dickens
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It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake? -- Charles Dickens
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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room. -- Charles Dickens
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In seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker ... -- Charles Dickens
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Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. -- Charles Dickens
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So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you! -- Charles Dickens
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After that, he drank all the rest of the sherry, and Mr. Hubble drank the port, and the two talked (which I have since observed to be customary in such cases) as if they were of quite another race from the deceased, and were notoriously immortal. -- Charles Dickens
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Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood. -- Charles Dickens
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Death is a mighty, universal truth. -- Charles Dickens
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I assumed my first undivided responsibility. -- Charles Dickens
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If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance. -- Charles Dickens
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Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere. -- Charles Dickens
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Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. You have loved yourself; let your old love speak for me! -- Charles Dickens
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Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin! -- Charles Dickens
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What happiness (I thought) if we were married, and we're going away to live among the trees and the fields. Some picture, with no real world in it, bright with the light of our innocence, and vague as the starts afar off, was in my mind all the way. -- Charles Dickens
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It was observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over. All -- Charles Dickens
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I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach. -- Charles Dickens
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It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXI THE EXPEDITION -- Charles Dickens
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When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better
those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding. -- Charles Dickens
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Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was. -- Charles Dickens
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King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking the heads of other men, was mightily impatient to go on a Crusade to the Holy Land, with a great army. -- Charles Dickens
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Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade. -- Charles Dickens
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the mangle in the laundry. -- Charles Dickens
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Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness! -- Charles Dickens
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He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted. -- Charles Dickens
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I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm around the blue waist of my dear divinity. -- Charles Dickens
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The words were still in his hearing as just spoken - distinctly in his hearing as ever spoken words had been in his life - when the weary passenger started to the consciousness of daylight, and found that the shadows of the night were gone. -- Charles Dickens
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Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves. -- Charles Dickens
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He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic. -- Charles Dickens
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Within a few hours the cottage furniture began to be wrapped up for preservation in the family absence - or, as Mr Meagles expressed it, the house began to put its hair in papers - and -- Charles Dickens
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I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then -- Charles Dickens
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The speeches, judging from the little I could hear of them, were certainly adapted to the occasion, as having that degree of relationship to cold water which wet blankets may claim: -- Charles Dickens
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He is going to pay the forfeit: it will be paid in five minutes more. Let him be -- Charles Dickens
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The possessor of such great expectations, - farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness; -- Charles Dickens
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Am I that man who lay upon the bed?" he cried, upon his knees. -- Charles Dickens
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I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history. -- Charles Dickens
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But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella. It is not much to give to the theme that so long filled my heart. -- Charles Dickens
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Once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath. Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war -- Charles Dickens
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And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. -- Charles Dickens
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We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs ... -- Charles Dickens
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Why, he is rather small,' replied Mr. Bumble: looking at Oliver as if it were his fault that he was no bigger; 'he is small. There's no denying it. But he'll grow, Mrs. Sowerberry--he'll grow. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Cruncher ... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. -- Charles Dickens
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We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped. -- Charles Dickens
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Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on! -- Charles Dickens
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Of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days -- Charles Dickens
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Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days XIX. -- Charles Dickens
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No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still -- Charles Dickens
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Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman -- Charles Dickens
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Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. -- Charles Dickens
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This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life. -- Charles Dickens
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All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter. -- Charles Dickens
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For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him. -- Charles Dickens
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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth ... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour. -- Charles Dickens
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. -- Charles Dickens
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somethingological -- Charles Dickens
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Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There -- Charles Dickens
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If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should like to say, that I for one would never consent to opposing an insurmountable bar to the diffusion of literature among the people ... -- Charles Dickens
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Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations. -- Charles Dickens
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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life. -- Charles Dickens
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I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day. -- Charles Dickens
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Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for the ministrations of sympathy and tenderness, or the rough hard hand which the heart softens, teaches, and guides in a moment. -- Charles Dickens
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they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's. -- Charles Dickens
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. -- Charles Dickens
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Being practical people, we never allow anybody to scare the birds; and the birds, being practical people too, come about us in myriads. -- Charles Dickens
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He's a rum dog. Don't he look fierce at any strange cove that laughs or sings when he's in company!' pursued the Dodger. 'Won't he growl at all, when he hears a fiddle playing! And don't he hate other dogs as ain't of his breed! Oh, no!'
'He's an out-and-out Christian,' said Charley. -- Charles Dickens
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My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. -- Charles Dickens
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Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures - the creatures of this chronicle among the rest - along the roads that lay before them. -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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At the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. -- Charles Dickens
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Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk -- Charles Dickens
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Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love. -- Charles Dickens
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Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow -- Charles Dickens
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There with the wood-fire, which was beginning to burn low, rising and falling upon him in the dark room, he sat with his legs thrust out to warm, drinking the hot wine down to the lees, with a monstrous shadow imitating him on the wall and ceiling. -- Charles Dickens
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We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances. -- Charles Dickens
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On rock, in gravel, and alluvial mud, under the bright sky of -- Charles Dickens
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What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened.' 'Dear, dear!' ejaculated Mrs. Sowerberry, piously raising her eyes to the kitchen ceiling: 'this comes of being liberal! -- Charles Dickens
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But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer. -- Charles Dickens
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Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. -- Charles Dickens
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A person of the name of Michael Jackson, with a blue welveteen waistcoat with a double row of mother of pearl buttons, Mr. -- Charles Dickens
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I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square. -- Charles Dickens
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I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead. -- Charles Dickens
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Lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications -- Charles Dickens
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Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf. -- Charles Dickens
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Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. -- Charles Dickens
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For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude. The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet. Having gazed cautiously round him, and listened intently, he gently undid the fastenings of the door, and looked abroad. -- Charles Dickens
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It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. -- Charles Dickens
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. -- Charles Dickens
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Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage - strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and what is there real in either to live or care for? -- Charles Dickens
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It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong. -- Charles Dickens
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Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. -- Charles Dickens
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Bad Fortune!" cries The Vengeance, stamping her foot in the chair, "and here are the tumbrils! And Evremonde will be despatched in a wink, and she not here! See her knitting in my hand, and her empty chair ready for her. I cry with vexation and disappointment! -- Charles Dickens
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A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world! -- Charles Dickens
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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I distress you; I draw fast to an end. -- Charles Dickens
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. -- Charles Dickens
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You find us, Copperfield,' said Mr Micawber, with one eye on Traddles, 'at present established, on what may be designated as a small and unassuming scale; but, you are aware that I have, in the course of my career, surmounted difficulties, and conquered obstacles. -- Charles Dickens
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I didn't say I understood her. I wouldn't have the presumption to say that of any woman. -- Charles Dickens
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. -- Charles Dickens
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No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I lookj into the depths of thif unfathomable wather, wherein, as momentary lights glanced nto it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. -- Charles Dickens
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Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find it necessary to -- Charles Dickens
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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. -- Charles Dickens
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It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travelers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXIX HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED -- Charles Dickens
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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 respect a rather common one. -- Charles Dickens
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I hardly seem yet," returned Charles Darnay, "to belong to this world again."
"I don't wonder at it; it's not so long since you were pretty far advanced on your way to another. -- Charles Dickens
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I am in a ridiculous humour,' quoth Eugene; 'I am a ridiculous fellow. Everything is ridiculous. Come along! -- Charles Dickens
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There never was a man with such a face as yours, unless it was your father, and I suppose he is singeing his grizzled red beard by this time, unless you came straight from the old un without any father at all betwixt you; which I shouldn't wonder at, a bit. -- Charles Dickens
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I shall always tell you everything. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:
Ever been kicked?
Might have been.
Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs?
Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. -- Charles Dickens
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[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. -- Charles Dickens
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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states. -- Charles Dickens
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Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly. -- Charles Dickens
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He never thought of Carton. His mind was so full of the others, that he never once thought of him. -- Charles Dickens
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He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset -- Charles Dickens
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Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms. -- Charles Dickens
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A very little key will open a very heavy door. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XLV NOAH CLAYPOLE IS EMPLOYED BY FAGIN ON A SECRET MISSION -- Charles Dickens
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Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin) -- Charles Dickens
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Don't believe that,' said Fagin. 'When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXV WHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY -- Charles Dickens
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The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings. -- Charles Dickens
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Captain said and did was honestly according to his nature; -- Charles Dickens
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mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun. He was otherwise quite self-possessed, bowed to the Judge, and stood -- Charles Dickens
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I thieved for you when I was a child not half as old as this!' pointing to Oliver. 'I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since. -- Charles Dickens
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As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant. -- Charles Dickens
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Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow -- Charles Dickens
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It's humbug still!" said Scrooge. "I won't believe it. -- Charles Dickens
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A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted. -- Charles Dickens
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The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood. -- Charles Dickens
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If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires ... then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam. -- Charles Dickens
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"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it." -- Charles Dickens
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He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way. -- Charles Dickens
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I don't think, Trotwood,' returned Agnes, raising her soft eyes to mine, 'I would consider that. Perhaps it would be better only to consider whether it is right to do this; and, if it is, to do it.' I had no longer any doubt on the subject. With a -- Charles Dickens
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this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more -- Charles Dickens
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The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve. -- Charles Dickens
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Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about, that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough, and could dispense with any more. -- Charles Dickens
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Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim. -- Charles Dickens
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Don't you read or get read to?" The old man shakes his head with sharp sly triumph. "No, no. We have never been readers in our family. It don't pay. Stuff. Idleness. Folly. No, no! -- Charles Dickens
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(herself in the family-way), -- Charles Dickens
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And a small return for your good offices." "Do you think I particularly like you?" "Really, Mr. Carton," returned the other, oddly disconcerted, "I have not asked myself the question." "But ask yourself the -- Charles Dickens
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morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; -- Charles Dickens
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. -- Charles Dickens
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Hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate -- Charles Dickens
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Where, in the dull eyes of doating men, are the laughing light and life of childhood, the gaiety that has known no check, the frankness that has felt no chill, the hope that has never withered, the joys that fade in blossoming? -- Charles Dickens
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Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets. -- Charles Dickens
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The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight -- Charles Dickens
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Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal -- Charles Dickens
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Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. -- Charles Dickens
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But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence. -- Charles Dickens
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"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps." -- Charles Dickens
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Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction. -- Charles Dickens
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Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and circumstance, there was one chain forged in the moment of that small conclusion, riveted to the foundations of heaven and earth, and gifted with invincible force to hold and drag. -- Charles Dickens
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He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small. -- Charles Dickens
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We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. -- Charles Dickens
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Respect! I believe young people are quick enough to observe and imitate; and why or how should they respect whom no one else respects, and everybody slights? -- Charles Dickens
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You'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together. -- Charles Dickens
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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it. -- Charles Dickens
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You know, there is no language of vegetables, which converts a cucumber into a formal declaration of attachment. -- Charles Dickens
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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify. -- Charles Dickens
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I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. -- Charles Dickens
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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by. -- Charles Dickens
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He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner. -- Charles Dickens
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He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth. -- Charles Dickens
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It would be impossible to get on anywhere, in America, without a rocking-chair. -- Charles Dickens
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He stepped aside to the ledge where the vine leaves yet lay strewn about, collected two or three, and stood wiping his hands upon them, with his back to the light. -- Charles Dickens
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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. -- Charles Dickens
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Her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. -- Charles Dickens
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To be the hero of my life or forever its victim. -- Charles Dickens
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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn. -- Charles Dickens
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His shoes looked too large; his sleeve looked too long; his hair looked too limp; his features looked too mean; his exposed throat looked as if a halter would have done it good. -- Charles Dickens
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The air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another. -- Charles Dickens
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Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled -- Charles Dickens
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The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it -- Charles Dickens
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I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.
Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE. -- Charles Dickens
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"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too." -- Charles Dickens
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When should I awaken the heart within her that was mute and sleeping now? -- Charles Dickens
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My first impression of those people, founded on face and manner alone, was invariably true. My mistake was in suffering them to come nearer to me and explain themselves away. -- Charles Dickens
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Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away. -- Charles Dickens
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Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever -- Charles Dickens
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He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see." Bob -- Charles Dickens
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It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine, or of anything but black bread and death. Is it not so, Jacques? -- Charles Dickens
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Don't say nothin' wotever about it, ma'am,' replied Sam. 'I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother, after he'd bled him to death. -- Charles Dickens
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Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter, and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure. -- Charles Dickens
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To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. -- Charles Dickens
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Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death. -- Charles Dickens
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We have none of us long to wait for Death. Patience, patience! He'll be here soon enough for us all. -- Charles Dickens
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My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims. -- Charles Dickens
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Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock. -- Charles Dickens
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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
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Death is Nature's remedy for all things, -- Charles Dickens
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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. -- Charles Dickens
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Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach. -- Charles Dickens
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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains. -- Charles Dickens
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And O
there are days
i this life,
worth life and
worth death -- Charles Dickens
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The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death -- Charles Dickens
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Life is pounds, shillings, and pence ... Death is not pounds, shillings, and pence. -- Charles Dickens
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It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. -- Charles Dickens
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He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man.
He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died. -- Charles Dickens
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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. -- Charles Dickens
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Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. -- Charles Dickens
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Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine. -- Charles Dickens
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Ancient charmers with skeleton throats and peachy cheeks that have a rather ghastly bloom upon them seen by daylight, when indeed these fascinating creatures look like Death and the Lady fused together, dazzle the eyes of men. Forth -- Charles Dickens
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. -- Charles Dickens
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An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness ... played the calm and virtuous old men. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XII IN WHICH OLIVER IS TAKEN BETTER CARE OF, THAN HE EVER WAS BEFORE. AND IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS -- Charles Dickens
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(a specially oily old gentleman in a blanket, with a swan's-down tippet for a beard, and a web of cracks all over him like rich pie-crust), -- Charles Dickens
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Who was never vexed by the great exactions he made of her in return for the riches he might have given her if he had ever had them, and who lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits. -- Charles Dickens
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The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep ... -- Charles Dickens
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I am running away. They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune, some long way off. I don't know where. -- Charles Dickens
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In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up -- Charles Dickens
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Approach me again, you - you - you Heep of infamy," gasped Mr. Micawber, " and if your head is human, I'll break it. -- Charles Dickens
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The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom. -- Charles Dickens
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They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick. -- Charles Dickens
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I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me. But he wrote me a letter. It led to our being engaged to be married. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XL A STRANGE INTERVIEW, WHICH IS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST CHAPTER -- Charles Dickens
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appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, -- Charles Dickens
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Mr Meagles with a despondent countenance in which the goodness of his heart was even more expressed than in his times of cheerfulness and gaiety, stroked his face down from his forehead to his chin, and shook his head again. -- Charles Dickens
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Caleb was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature had been the mistress of his study; and from her teaching, all the wonder came. -- Charles Dickens
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We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XLIII WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE ARTFUL DODGER GOT INTO TROUBLE -- Charles Dickens
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Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre. -- Charles Dickens
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We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us ... -- Charles Dickens
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felt his nose carefully all the way up... "I thought it was gone," said Toby, trotting off again. "It's alright however. I am sure I couldn't blame it if it was to go. -- Charles Dickens
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What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of Adam. -- Charles Dickens
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such a mixing of gaslight and daylight, that they seemed to have got on the wrong side of the pattern of the universe. -- Charles Dickens
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It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last! -- Charles Dickens
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If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! -- Charles Dickens
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So it was done to the general contentment; and if Gruff and Glum didn't in the course of the afternoon splice the main brace, it was not for want of the means of inflicting that outrage on the feelings of the Infant Bands of Hope. -- Charles Dickens
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To have on her head a most wonderful bonnet like a Grenadier wooden measure, and good measure too, or a great Stilton cheese, -- Charles Dickens
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Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here. -- Charles Dickens
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The empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it, and the whole burnt away in a great funeral pyre - why -- Charles Dickens
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I know how hard it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to support life in myself; but do you know how easy it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to destroy life in you?" Every -- Charles Dickens
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Chafed the hands that held his arm. There, there, there! See -- Charles Dickens
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He saw in Mr Chivery, with some astonishment, quite an Allegory of Silence, -- Charles Dickens
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Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug. -- Charles Dickens
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I don't know what day of the month it is!" said Scrooge. "I don't know how long I've been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby. Hallo! Whoop! -- Charles Dickens
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If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should. -- Charles Dickens
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There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are! - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning -- Charles Dickens
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You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. -- Charles Dickens
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The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow. -- Charles Dickens
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At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be. -- Charles Dickens
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Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. -- Charles Dickens
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Name. "Mr. Scrooge!" said Bob; "I'll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!" "The Founder of the Feast indeed!" cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. "I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it. -- Charles Dickens
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Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more. -- Charles Dickens
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It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. -- Charles Dickens
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It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can. -- Charles Dickens
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Mankind was my business ... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. -- Charles Dickens
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At the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially. "There's another fellow," muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: "my clerk, with fifteen -- Charles Dickens
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Here is a new game," said Scrooge. "One half hour, Spirit, only one! -- Charles Dickens
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There were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children were acting as one, but every child was acting as forty. -- Charles Dickens
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Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. -- Charles Dickens
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Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?"
"I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Scrooge!" said Bob; "I'll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast! -- Charles Dickens
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Can you - can you sit down?" asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully at him. "I can." "Do it, then." Scrooge asked -- Charles Dickens
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Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it. -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference. -- Charles Dickens
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You can hold a knife to that black eye, as you run along. It'll keep the swelling down. -- Charles Dickens
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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. -- Charles Dickens
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The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. -- Charles Dickens
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Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase -- Charles Dickens
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I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. -- Charles Dickens
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You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not? -- Charles Dickens
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The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXIII WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHEWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON SOME POINTS -- Charles Dickens
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Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead. -- Charles Dickens
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I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life - as something I have passed, rather than have actually been - and almost think of him as of someone else. -- Charles Dickens
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For smoke, which is the London ivy, had so wreathed itself round Peffer's name and clung to his dwelling-place that the affectionate parasite quite overpowered the parent tree. -- Charles Dickens
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Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day! -- Charles Dickens
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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. -- Charles Dickens
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"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. " -- Charles Dickens
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It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold. -- Charles Dickens
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As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. -- Charles Dickens
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Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities. -- Charles Dickens
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Far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain; -- Charles Dickens
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Some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with -- Charles Dickens
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Joe's blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker. -- Charles Dickens
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Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it? -- Charles Dickens
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And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up! -- Charles Dickens
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Well, it is strange that I who gave birth to her, and was a woman then, should be alive and merry now, and she lying there: so cold and stiff! Lord, Lord! - to think of it; it's as good as a play - as good as a play! -- Charles Dickens
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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen. -- Charles Dickens
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My poor girl, you have not been very well taught how to make a home for your husband, but unless you mean with all your heart to strive to do it, you had better murder him than marry him - if you really love him. -- Charles Dickens
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It was fine in the morning, particularly in the fine mornings. -- Charles Dickens
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Love is not a feeling to pass away
Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day ...
Love is not a passion of earthly mould
As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold -- Charles Dickens
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He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said to be in his way, for he went in at one door and came out at the other[.] -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XLV THE TRUSTY AGENT -- Charles Dickens
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Tom" softly over the coach-roof.
"Hallo", Joe."
"Did you hear the message?"
"I did, Joe."
"What did you make of it, Tom?"
"Nothing at all, Joe."
"That's a coincidence, too" the guard mused, "for I made the same of it myself. -- Charles Dickens
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I could not help wondering in my own mind ... how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself. -- Charles Dickens
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I saw light wreaths from Joe's pipe floating there, and I fancied it was like a blessing from Joe, - not obtruded on me or paraded before me, but pervading the air we shared together. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Feeder, B.A. (who was in the habit of shaving his head for coolness, and had nothing but little bristles on it), gave him a boney hand, and told him he was glad to see him - which Paul would have been very glad to have told him, if he could have done so with the least sincerity. Then -- Charles Dickens
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They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles. -- Charles Dickens
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The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty. -- Charles Dickens
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O! there are many kinds of pride," said Biddy, looking full at me and shaking her head; "pride is not all of one kind - -- Charles Dickens
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it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, -- Charles Dickens
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There is, probably, not a famous Picture or Statue in all Italy, but could be easily buried under a mountain of printed paper devoted to dissertations on it. I do not, therefore, though an earnest admirer of Painting and Sculpture, expatiate at any length on famous Pictures and Statues. -- Charles Dickens
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"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive." -- Charles Dickens
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My opinion, miss," returned Mr. Cruncher, "is as you're right. Likewise wot I'll stand by you, right or wrong. -- Charles Dickens
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All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XLIV THE TIME ARRIVES, FOR NANCY TO REDEEM HER PLEDGE TO ROSE MAYLIE. SHE FAILS -- Charles Dickens
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That his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into -- Charles Dickens
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Indeed!" said Defarge, with much indifference. "Yes, indeed. When Doctor Manette was released, you, his old domestic, had the charge of him, I know. He was delivered to you. You see I am informed -- Charles Dickens
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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence? -- Charles Dickens
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"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change." -- Charles Dickens
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But there was nothing on the back of the door, except the screws and nuts that held the knocker on, so he said "Pooh, pooh!" and closed it with a bang. -- Charles Dickens
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Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast. -- Charles Dickens
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As all partings foreshadow the great final one, - so, empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be. -- Charles Dickens
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If the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. -- Charles Dickens
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A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly. -- Charles Dickens
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When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. I'm your Rome, you know. -- Charles Dickens
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Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason -- Charles Dickens
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you are lost dream of my soul.. -- Charles Dickens
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You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives. -- Charles Dickens
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The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-General rose to spin the rope, grind the axe, and hammer the nails into the scaffold. -- Charles Dickens
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Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained -- Charles Dickens
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There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in ill humor and near knives. -- Charles Dickens
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The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. -- Charles Dickens
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There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.' -- Charles Dickens
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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. -- Charles Dickens
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In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards. -- Charles Dickens
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Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. -- Charles Dickens
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Dear Little Dorrit, it is not my imprisonment only that will soon be over. This sacrifice of you must be ended. We must learn to part again, and to take our different ways so wide asunder. You have not forgotten what we said together, when you came back? -- Charles Dickens
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There was no speaking among the string of riders. The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the breath, partly as if they had just emerged from very clear crisp water, and partly as if they had been sobbing, kept them silent. -- Charles Dickens
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Attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that -- Charles Dickens
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As at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic -- Charles Dickens
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A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence. -- Charles Dickens
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To say that he was not startled, or that his blood was not conscious of a terrible sensation to which it had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue. -- Charles Dickens
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I dare say our is likely to be a rather long engagement, but our motto is "Wait and hope!" We always say that. "Wait and hope!" we always say. -- Charles Dickens
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When he grew tall enough to peep through the keyhole of the great lock of the main door, he had divers times set down his father's dinner, or supper, to get on as it might on the outer side thereof, while he stood taking cold in one eye by dint of peeping at her through that airy perspective. -- Charles Dickens
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There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. -- Charles Dickens
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There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk. -- Charles Dickens
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Uriah gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy. -- Charles Dickens
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Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat! -- Charles Dickens
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So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! ... -- Charles Dickens
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And let us tranquilize ourselves by making a compact. Next time (with a view to our peace of mind) we'll commit the crime, instead of taking the criminal. You swear it?'
'Certainly.'
'Sworn! Let Tippins look to it. Her life's in danger. -- Charles Dickens
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The lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away. -- Charles Dickens
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But I like business,' said Pancks, getting on a little faster. 'What's a man made for?' 'For nothing else?' said Clennam. Pancks put the counter question, 'What else?' It packed up, in the smallest compass, a weight that had rested on Clennam's life; and he made no answer. -- Charles Dickens
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I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding. -- Charles Dickens
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There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect -- Charles Dickens
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We have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong. -- Charles Dickens
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There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavoured to diffuse in vain. -- Charles Dickens
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I am saying nothing. -- Charles Dickens
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...Be what you like'
'Some people, sir,' remarked Lamps, 'are sometimes what they don't like.'
'Nobody knows that better than I do,' sighed the other. 'I have been what I don't like, all my life. -- Charles Dickens
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As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself! -- Charles Dickens
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I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond. -- Charles Dickens
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. -- Charles Dickens
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Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait. -- Charles Dickens
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Miss Tox made no verbal answer, but took up the little wateringpot with a trembling hand, and looked vacantly round as if considering what article of furniture would be improved by the contents. The -- Charles Dickens
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The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. -- Charles Dickens
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Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours. -- Charles Dickens
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Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps. -- Charles Dickens
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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! -- Charles Dickens
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there is a dense crowd; outside the Betting Rooms it is like a great struggle at a theatre door - in the days of theatres; or at the vestibule of the Spurgeon temple - in the days of Spurgeon. An -- Charles Dickens
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Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it ... -- Charles Dickens
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. -- Charles Dickens
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Stony One replies, in a general way, 'All right. Everybody knows where to find Durdles, when he's wanted.' Which, if not strictly true, is approximately so, if taken to express that Durdles may always be found in a state of vagabondage somewhere. -- Charles Dickens
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Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. -- Charles Dickens
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Hours are golden links
God's tokens reaching heaven. -- Charles Dickens
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messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, -- Charles Dickens
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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach! -- Charles Dickens
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Year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange -- Charles Dickens
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Commence," was Monsieur Defarge's not unreasonable reply, "at the commencement. -- Charles Dickens
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It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over. -- Charles Dickens
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You have been the last dream of my soul. -- Charles Dickens
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The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by. -- Charles Dickens
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Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery! -- Charles Dickens
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And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done
done, see you!
under that sky there, every day. -- Charles Dickens
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I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is! -- Charles Dickens
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When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself. -- Charles Dickens
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Poverty and oysters always seem to go together. -- Charles Dickens
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I went home, with new matters for my thoughts, though with no relief from the old. -- Charles Dickens
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything -- Charles Dickens
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There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts. -- Charles Dickens
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And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! -- Charles Dickens
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And who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or her complexion. -- Charles Dickens
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For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter. -- Charles Dickens
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There could not well be more ink splashed about it, if it had been roofless from its first construction, and the skies had rained, snowed, hailed, and blown ink through the varying seasons of the year. -- Charles Dickens
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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth. -- Charles Dickens
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Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn. -- Charles Dickens
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It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves -- Charles Dickens
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Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram. -- Charles Dickens
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Don't judge me by a little thing like this. In little things, I am a little thing myself - I always was. But in great things, I hope not; I don't mean to boast, but I hope not! -- Charles Dickens
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Consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him. Mr. Sowerberry came down soon after. Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Sowerberry appeared. Oliver having 'caught it,' in fulfilment of Noah's prediction, followed that young gentleman down the stairs to breakfast. -- Charles Dickens
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Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind. -- Charles Dickens
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To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine. -- Charles Dickens
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You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air? -- Charles Dickens
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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XVI RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY -- Charles Dickens
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Reflect upon your present blessings
of which every man has many
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -- Charles Dickens
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. -- Charles Dickens
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I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music. -- Charles Dickens
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If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is
a periodical breaking out, we suppose
a sort of spring rash. -- Charles Dickens
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a lady with such a genius for dreaming! -- Charles Dickens
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There is nothing I would not have given you to have had you deserve my old opinion of you; nothing! -- Charles Dickens
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Lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the casements darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished -- Charles Dickens
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. -- Charles Dickens
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In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease
a terrible passing inclination to die of it. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXXIX INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHEWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEADS TOGETHER -- Charles Dickens
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When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows. -- Charles Dickens
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Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life. -- Charles Dickens
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Now, I know I'm going to break your hearts, but I am forced to leave you. You must call up all your fortitude, and try to bear it ... "Bob swore!" - as the Englishman said for "Good night", when he first learnt French, and thought it so like English. "Bob swore," my ducks!" (Chapter XXII) -- Charles Dickens
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Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -- Charles Dickens
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We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. -- Charles Dickens
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The crowd came pouring out with a vehemence that nearly took him off his legs, and a loud buzz swept into the street as if the baffled blue-flies were dispersing in search of other carrion. -- Charles Dickens
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The changes of a fevered room are slow and fluctuating; but the changes of the fevered world are rapid and irrevocable. -- Charles Dickens
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I could settle down into a state of
equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee. -- Charles Dickens
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You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed. -- Charles Dickens
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. -- Charles Dickens
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Only twice more did the housekeeper reappear, and then her stay in the room was very short, and Mr. Jaggers was sharp with her. But her hands were Estella's hands, and her eyes were Estella's eyes ... -- Charles Dickens
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He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done. -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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Let no man talk of murderers escaping justice, and hint that providence must sleep. -- Charles Dickens
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Circumstances beyond my individual control. -- Charles Dickens
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my brother's cognac and tobacco talk -- Charles Dickens
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Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.' -- Charles Dickens
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I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning. -- Charles Dickens
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven. -- Charles Dickens
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. -- Charles Dickens
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Here he shook hands with me; not in the common way, but standing at a good distance from me, and lifting my hand up and down like a pump handle, that he was a little afraid of. -- Charles Dickens
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Don't I what?' said Peg. 'Love your old master too much - ' 'No, not a bit too much,' said Peg. -- Charles Dickens
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The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. -- Charles Dickens
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Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. -- Charles Dickens
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Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits. They went quietly down into the roaring streets, inseparable and blessed; and as they passed along in sunshine and shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain, fretted -- Charles Dickens
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We are so very 'umble. -- Charles Dickens
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Lovers had loved before, and lovers would love again; but no lover had ever loved, might, could, would, or should ever love, as I loved Dora. -- Charles Dickens
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No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XLIX MONKS AND MR. BROWNLOW AT LENGTH MEET. THEIR CONVERSATION, AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INTERRUPTS IT -- Charles Dickens
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Lucie stood stretching out her arms towards her husband, with nothing in her face but love and consolation. -- Charles Dickens
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set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical -- Charles Dickens
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Yes, Miss Manette is going to be married. But not to an Englishman; to one who, like herself, is French by birth. And speaking of Gaspard (ah, poor Gaspard! It was cruel, cruel!), it is a curious thing that she is going -- Charles Dickens
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Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney! -- Charles Dickens
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. -- Charles Dickens
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. -- Charles Dickens
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People must be amuthed." - Mr. Sleary -- Charles Dickens
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Fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven -- Charles Dickens
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At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing-room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot. At dinner, he was envied -- Charles Dickens
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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. -- Charles Dickens
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Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two? -- Charles Dickens
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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst. -- Charles Dickens
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There is something about a roused woman: especially if she add to all her other strong passions, the fierce impulses of recklessness and despair; which few men like to provoke. The -- Charles Dickens
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True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything. -- Charles Dickens
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"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly." -- Charles Dickens
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Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever age we are, on account of time never standing still for a single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced. To be sure! -- Charles Dickens
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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. -- Charles Dickens
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How can I? Tut, don't I know? she added in the same breath, -- Charles Dickens
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But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER L THE PURSUIT AND ESCAPE -- Charles Dickens
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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world! -- Charles Dickens
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I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion. -- Charles Dickens
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To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. -- Charles Dickens
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Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose. -- Charles Dickens
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Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained. -- Charles Dickens
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What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love! -- Charles Dickens
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There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization. -- Charles Dickens
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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. -- Charles Dickens
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The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason. -- Charles Dickens
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[He] should come to the knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt. -- Charles Dickens
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She did not replace my mother; no one could do that; but she came into a vacancy in my heart, which closed upon her, and I felt towards her something I have never felt for any other human being -- Charles Dickens
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Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you ... -- Charles Dickens
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At this time of the rolling year," the specter said, "I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me? -- Charles Dickens
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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? -- Charles Dickens
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That the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds. -- Charles Dickens
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A bargain,' said the son. 'Here's the rule for bargains -"Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits. -- Charles Dickens
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Are you thankful for not being young?'
'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see? ... -- Charles Dickens
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Pip, dear old chap. life is made of ever many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith and one's a whitesmith, one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come. -- Charles Dickens
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. -- Charles Dickens
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I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today? -- Charles Dickens
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hey! there's no room for Naples;' he had got to the wall by this time; 'but it's all one; it's in there!' He remained on his knees, looking up at his fellow-prisoner -- Charles Dickens
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The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it. -- Charles Dickens
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Towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XIX IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON -- Charles Dickens
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. -- Charles Dickens
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then p'r'aps we may get into what the 'Merrikins call a fix, and the English a qvestion o' privileges. -- Charles Dickens
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Has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you, if you tell me, without lying that somebody had cut it out -- Charles Dickens
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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me. -- Charles Dickens
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So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting, knitting, counting dropping heads. -- Charles Dickens
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She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. -- Charles Dickens
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No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me. -- Charles Dickens
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Unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us -- Charles Dickens
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Every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. -- Charles Dickens
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Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better. -- Charles Dickens
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Loadstone Rock Book the Third - the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow -- Charles Dickens
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Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells ... -- Charles Dickens
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No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die. -- Charles Dickens
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There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner. -- Charles Dickens
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But, he feigned not to notice the two strangers, and fell into discourse with the triumvirate of customers who were drinking at the counter. -- Charles Dickens
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And it is not a slight thing when we are loved by those so fresh from God. -- Charles Dickens
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So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star. -- Charles Dickens
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In the triumphant exaltation of her feelings, Miss Fanny, using her Spanish fan with one hand, squeezed her sister's waist with the other, as if she were crushing Mrs Merdle. 'No, -- Charles Dickens
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Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased. -- Charles Dickens
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And what's the best of all," he said, "you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun shone. That's the best of all. -- Charles Dickens
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For directly afterwards, the Dodger, and Charley, and the two young ladies, went away together, having been kindly furnished by the amiable old Jew with money to spend. -- Charles Dickens
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Would it be weakness to return my love? -- Charles Dickens
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Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable) ... -- Charles Dickens
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I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me. -- Charles Dickens
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Authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; -- Charles Dickens
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Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of -- Charles Dickens
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Book the First - Recalled to -- Charles Dickens
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. -- Charles Dickens
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I came to the village, and the churchyard where the dead had been quietly buried, "in the sure and certain hope" which Christmas time inspired. What -- Charles Dickens
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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. -- Charles Dickens
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The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. -- Charles Dickens
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The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming. -- Charles Dickens
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"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated ... " -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. -- Charles Dickens
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Perhaps. Perhaps, see the great crowd of people with its rush and roar, bearing down upon them, too. -- Charles Dickens
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I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XLII AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER'S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS -- Charles Dickens
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A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns. -- Charles Dickens
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[ ... ] Says it with his head on! Mr. Stryver remarked upon the peculiarity as if it would have been infinitely less remarkable if he had said it with his head off. -- Charles Dickens
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The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story. -- Charles Dickens
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What greater gift than the love of a cat. -- Charles Dickens
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He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances. -- Charles Dickens
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I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. -- Charles Dickens
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Ah!' he said, slowly turning his eyes towards me. 'Well! If you was writin' to her, p'raps you'd recollect to say that Barkis was willin'; would you?' 'That Barkis is willing,' I repeated, innocently. 'Is that all the message?' 'Ye-es,' he said, considering. 'Ye-es. Barkis is willin -- Charles Dickens
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Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. -- Charles Dickens
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He sat in the same place as the day died, looking at the dull houses opposite, and thinking, if the disembodied spirits of former inhabitants were ever conscious of them, how they must pity themselves for their old places of imprisonment. -- Charles Dickens
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A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it. -- Charles Dickens
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In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, -- Charles Dickens
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In that England which I shall see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. I see her father, aged -- Charles Dickens
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This history must sometimes see with Little Dorrit's eyes, and shall begin that course by seeing him. -- Charles Dickens
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Yes, sir," said I; "him too; late of this parish. -- Charles Dickens
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A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others. -- Charles Dickens
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Some people are nobody's enemies but their own -- Charles Dickens
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King with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, -- Charles Dickens
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With a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were -- Charles Dickens
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Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air then anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did. -- Charles Dickens
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A prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after -- Charles Dickens
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"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic." -- Charles Dickens
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Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXXV CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER'S ADVENTURE; AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE -- Charles Dickens
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Herbert received me with open arms, and I had never felt before so blessedly what it is to have a friend. When he had spoken some sound words of sympathy and encouragement, we sat down to consider the question, What was to be done? -- Charles Dickens
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We'll start to forget a place once we left it -- Charles Dickens
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The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown ... -- Charles Dickens
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Shaggy wrapper, flapping hat, and muddy legs, was rather -- Charles Dickens
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"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart ... " -- Charles Dickens
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"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them." -- Charles Dickens
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I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it. -- Charles Dickens
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Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights: some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have been yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black. -- Charles Dickens
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May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the children of not exactly suitable marriages are always most particularly anxious to be married? -- Charles Dickens
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By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study! -- Charles Dickens
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being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her. The -- Charles Dickens
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Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. -- Charles Dickens
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On the haggard face of every man among these prisoners, the same expression sat. I know not what to liken it to. It had something of that strained attention which we see upon the faces of the blind and deaf, mingled with a kind of horror, as though they had all been secretly terrified. -- Charles Dickens
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What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! -- Charles Dickens
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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. -- Charles Dickens
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Time does his work honestly, and I don't mind him. A -- Charles Dickens
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Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. -- Charles Dickens
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When the French come over, May we meet them at Dover! -- Charles Dickens
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I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. -- Charles Dickens
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The door is locked then, my friend?" said Mr. Lorry, surprised. -- Charles Dickens
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When the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands. -- Charles Dickens
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When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life. -- Charles Dickens
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and turned into Bartholomew Close; and now I became aware that other people were waiting about for Mr. Jaggers, as well as I. There were two men of secret appearance lounging in Bartholomew Close, and thoughtfully fitting their feet into the cracks of the pavement as they -- Charles Dickens
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this is my landlord, Krook -- Charles Dickens
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The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame. -- Charles Dickens
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I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest. -- Charles Dickens
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There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today ... and will come around for me tomorrow. -- Charles Dickens
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"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood ... " -- Charles Dickens
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But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens
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Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again. -- Charles Dickens
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she hated and detested Nicholas with all the narrowness of mind and littleness of purpose worthy a descendant of the house of Squeers. -- Charles Dickens
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She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her. -- Charles Dickens
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There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been. -- Charles Dickens
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And Master
or Mister
Sloppy?' said the Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what. -- Charles Dickens
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Will you never understand that I am incorrigible? -- Charles Dickens
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Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind! -- Charles Dickens
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The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers. -- Charles Dickens
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Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows. -- Charles Dickens
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A sea to intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire ... -- Charles Dickens
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His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility of his beastly excess. -- Charles Dickens
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Blunt tools are are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail. -- Charles Dickens
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The bird that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing, they say,' grumbled Tackleton. -- Charles Dickens
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Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly. -- Charles Dickens
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There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas. -- Charles Dickens
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And to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it -- Charles Dickens
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"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance ... " -- Charles Dickens
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Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred. There was a courtyard in front, and that was barred; -- Charles Dickens
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You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. -- Charles Dickens
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The recollection of almost overpowered Miss Tox. The subject of it had a peculiar interest for her directly. She asked him to shake hands, and congratulated his mother on his frank, ingenuous face. Rob, overhearing her, called up a look, to justify the eulogium, but it was hardly the right look. -- Charles Dickens
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For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down. -- Charles Dickens
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Houses were knocked down ... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood ... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress. -- Charles Dickens
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It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain. -- Charles Dickens
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Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding! ... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy! -- Charles Dickens
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Whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read -- Charles Dickens
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Tst! Joe! cried the coachman in a warning voice, looking down from his box. -- Charles Dickens
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That's the past tense, Tom,' returned Mr. James Harthouse, striking the ash from his cigar with his little finger. 'We are in the present tense, now.' 'Verb -- Charles Dickens
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Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum, -- Charles Dickens
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Your day is done. Night is coming fast for you." - Nickolas Nickleby -- Charles Dickens
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I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until my mother came home from spending the evening at a neighbour's, I would rather have died upon my post (of course) than have gone to bed. I -- Charles Dickens
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Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and lashed the roof, and surged among the arches, and pierced the heights of the great tower; and then the sea was dry, and all was still. -- Charles Dickens
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And memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a story of another kind. -- Charles Dickens
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How many crumpets, at a sittin', do you think 'ud kill me off at once?" says the patient. "I don't know," says the doctor. "Do you think half-a-crown's wurth 'ud do it?" says the patient. "I think it might," says the doctor. -- Charles Dickens
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Hi, Lady Jane!" A large grey cat leaped from some neighbouring shelf on his shoulder and startled us all. -- Charles Dickens
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The years glide by silently -- Charles Dickens
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I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind! -- Charles Dickens
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Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin. -- Charles Dickens
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Apropos this election season, America is the home of:

"Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; and cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers. -- Charles Dickens
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To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible. -- Charles Dickens
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A new heart for a New Year, always! -- Charles Dickens
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Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language. -- Charles Dickens
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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters. -- Charles Dickens
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It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter. -- Charles Dickens
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How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you. -- Charles Dickens
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Repining is of no use, ma'am," said Ralph. "Of all the fruitless errands, sending a tear to look after a day that is gone, is the most fruitless. -- Charles Dickens
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Indeed, I felt almost ashamed to have done so little and have won so much. -- Charles Dickens
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When smoking umbrellas passed and repassed, spinning round and round like so many teetotums, -- Charles Dickens
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Oh, yes, I know, I am a great deal better," said Paul, "a very great deal better. Listen, Floy; what is it the sea keeps saying?" "Nothing, dear, it is only the rolling of the waves you hear. -- Charles Dickens
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And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea. -- Charles Dickens
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I'll eat my head! -- Charles Dickens
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Yes, sir!' from one half. 'No, sir!' from the other. 'Of -- Charles Dickens
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I hope you care to be recalled to life? -- 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. -- Charles Dickens
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... a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper
a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make
everybody more or less uncomfortable. -- Charles Dickens
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Days XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps -- Charles Dickens
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Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible. -- Charles Dickens
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I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry
I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart
God knows what its name was
that tears started to my eyes. -- Charles Dickens
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My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going. -- Charles Dickens
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. -- Charles Dickens
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British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any -- Charles Dickens
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. -- Charles Dickens
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They never show mercy because mercy was never shown to them -- Charles Dickens
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In our course through life we shall meet the people who are coming to meet us, from many strange places and by many strange roads,' was the composed reply; 'and what it is set to us to do to them, and what it is set to them to do to us, will all be done. -- Charles Dickens
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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. -- Charles Dickens
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A good thing can't be cruel. -- Charles Dickens
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I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. -- Charles Dickens
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If the room to which my bed was removed were a sentient thing that could give evidence, I might appeal to it at this day - who sleeps there now, -- Charles Dickens
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Meet me. He was delighted to see me, and -- Charles Dickens
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And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud. And if it's not, she is NOT. -- Charles Dickens
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[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. -- Charles Dickens
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You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered, in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who'll do that for you. -- Charles Dickens
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Why, how's this?' muttered the Jew: changing countenance; 'only two of 'em? Where's the third? They can't have got into trouble. Hark! -- Charles Dickens
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I would like to be going all over the kingdom ... and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause! -- Charles Dickens
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The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night. -- Charles Dickens
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The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER LXII FINAL -- Charles Dickens
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Man cannot really improve himself without improving others. -- Charles Dickens
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Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day. -- Charles Dickens
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It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out. -- Charles Dickens
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There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXXVIII CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW -- Charles Dickens
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Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. It -- Charles Dickens
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She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, ... 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too! -- Charles Dickens
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[ ... ] dropped his master's head upon the floor with a pretty loud crash, and then, without an effort to lift it up, gazed upon the bystanders, as if he had done something rather clever than otherwise. -- Charles Dickens
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Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. -- Charles Dickens
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what wind blows you here? nit an ill wind, I hope -- Charles Dickens
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When they coughed, they coughed like people accustomed to be forgotten on doorsteps and in draughty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink ... -- Charles Dickens
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. -- Charles Dickens
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Dickens writes that one of his characters, listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business. -- Charles Dickens
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. -- Charles Dickens
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If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble ... ' the law is an ass - an idiot. -- Charles Dickens
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Had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all -- Charles Dickens
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I'll bring him to you in one minute, sir,' replied Mrs. Mann. 'Here, you Dick! -- Charles Dickens
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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
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Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. -- Charles Dickens
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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. -- Charles Dickens
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Streets, inseparable and blessed; and as they passed along in sunshine and shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain, fretted and chafed, -- Charles Dickens
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I was married then. I was the happiest of the happy. - Esther Summerson -- Charles Dickens
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we had everything before us, -- Charles Dickens
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! -- Charles Dickens
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A passing thought occurred to me that Miss Murdstone, like the pocket instrument called a life-preserver, was not so much designed for purposes of protection as of assault. But -- Charles Dickens
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Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there; but these were his enemies, the shadows cast by his brightness; that was all. -- Charles Dickens
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Are there no prisons? -- Charles Dickens
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For my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like on who was toiling home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years. -- Charles Dickens
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My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention -- Charles Dickens
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Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas -- Charles Dickens
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"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it." -- Charles Dickens
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I must do something or I shall wear my heart away ... -- Charles Dickens
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The picturesque doctor's daughter, Miss Manette. -- Charles Dickens
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Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. -- Charles Dickens
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My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction ... -- Charles Dickens
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Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged. -- Charles Dickens
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The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer -- Charles Dickens
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I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us. -- Charles Dickens
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Keep my memory green. -- Charles Dickens
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Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book the Third - -- Charles Dickens
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He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. -- Charles Dickens
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There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance of the Revolution was to scatter them all to the winds. -- Charles Dickens
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. -- Charles Dickens
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The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. -- Charles Dickens
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You've got the key of the street. -- Charles Dickens
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There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited -- Charles Dickens
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Lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. -- Charles Dickens
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One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind. -- Charles Dickens
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Come! Let us make that bargain. Think of me at my best, if circumstances should ever part us! -- Charles Dickens
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If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig. -- Charles Dickens
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And this is another spell against which the shedder of blood for ever strives in vain. There are fifty doors by which discovery may enter. With infinite pains and cunning, he double locks and bars forty-nine of them, and cannot see the fiftieth standing wide open. -- Charles Dickens
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. -- Charles Dickens
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She had reasons for believing that there was a young sister living, and her greatest desire was, to help that sister. -- Charles Dickens
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As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth. But -- Charles Dickens
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If they disclosed to me, as I suspect they did, that I should not come back, and that Biddy was quite right, all I can say is, - they were quite right too. Chapter -- Charles Dickens
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You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it. -- Charles Dickens
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May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it. -- Charles Dickens
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Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? -- Charles Dickens
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. -- Charles Dickens
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. -- Charles Dickens
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Why then we should drop into poetry. -- Charles Dickens
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'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. -- Charles Dickens
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They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances. -- Charles Dickens
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"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more." -- Charles Dickens
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Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five -- Charles Dickens
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How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds! -- Charles Dickens
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The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous. -- Charles Dickens
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I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her. -- Charles Dickens
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Oh indeed! Our and the Wilfers' Mutual Friend, my dear. -- Charles Dickens
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We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. -- Charles Dickens
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Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead -- Charles Dickens
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The present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the -- Charles Dickens
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Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People -- Charles Dickens
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I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities. -- Charles Dickens
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The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play. I told Em'ly I adored her, and that unless she confessed she adored me I should be reduced to the necessity of killing myself with a sword. She said she did, and I have no doubt she did. -- Charles Dickens
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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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Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements. -- Charles Dickens
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Cadogan Place is the one slight bond that joins two great extremes; it is the connecting link between the aristocratic pavements of Belgrave Square, and the barbarism of Chelsea. -- Charles Dickens
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Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass
an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India. -- Charles Dickens
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She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful. -- Charles Dickens
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I'll not leave a handful of that dark hair upon your head, if you lay a finger on me! -- Charles Dickens
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Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. -- Charles Dickens
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[John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place -- Charles Dickens
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There might be some credit in being jolly. -- Charles Dickens
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. -- Charles Dickens
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On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life! -- Charles Dickens
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Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch. -- Charles Dickens
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His philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it & animosity was hard to determine -- Charles Dickens
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Two other passengers, besides the one, were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail. All three were wrapped to the cheekbones -- Charles Dickens
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom. -- Charles Dickens
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Halloa!" the guard replied. "What o'clock do you make it, Joe?" "Ten minutes, good, past eleven. -- Charles Dickens
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We never tire of the friendships we form with books. -- Charles Dickens
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I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing. -- Charles Dickens
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Boys are very like men to be sure. -- Charles Dickens
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there is a natural propriety in the companionship: always to be noted in confidence between a child and a person who has any merit of reality and genuineness: which is admirably pleasant. -- Charles Dickens
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What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses? -- Charles Dickens
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So he whistles it off, and marches on -- Charles Dickens
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When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER LI AFFORDING AN EXPLANATION OF MORE MYSTERIES THAN ONE, AND COMPREHENDING A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE WITH NO WORD OF SETTLEMENT OR PIN-MONEY -- Charles Dickens
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"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." -- Charles Dickens
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The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them -- Charles Dickens
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. -- Charles Dickens
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Heaven suits the back to the burden. -- Charles Dickens
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Well! And hallo you! said Jerry, more hoarsely than before. -- Charles Dickens
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The time came in its season, and that was very soon, when I almost wondered that nothing troubled his repose, as I looked at him. But he slept - let me think of him so again - as I had often seen him sleep at school; and thus, in this silent hour, I left him. - Never more, oh God -- Charles Dickens
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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. -- Charles Dickens
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The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled to Life -- Charles Dickens
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Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy. -- Charles Dickens
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Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. -- Charles Dickens
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Fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred -- Charles Dickens
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It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet. -- Charles Dickens
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If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is. -- Charles Dickens
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Wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, -- Charles Dickens
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He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man. -- Charles Dickens
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I am not aware ... that to think of any person is to make a great claim upon that person, my dear. -- Charles Dickens
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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. -- Charles Dickens
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It flashed upon Miss Pross's mind that the doors were all standing open, and would suggest the flight. Her first act was to shut them. There were four in the room, and she shut them all. She then placed herself before the door of the chamber which Lucie had occupied. -- Charles Dickens
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In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article -- Charles Dickens
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I don't like that sort of school ... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged ... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines. -- Charles Dickens
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There is a wisdom of the head, and ... there is a wisdom of the heart. -- Charles Dickens
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The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. -- Charles Dickens
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In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
(Frauds on the Fairies, 1853) -- Charles Dickens
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He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears. -- Charles Dickens
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A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange! -- Charles Dickens
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It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was. -- Charles Dickens
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Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have
established my identity. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read. -- Charles Dickens
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Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? -- Charles Dickens
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I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him. -- Charles Dickens
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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime. -- Charles Dickens
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It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. -- Charles Dickens
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It was a maxim with Foxey- our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody. -- Charles Dickens
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...a gallon of condescension, upon everybody... -- Charles Dickens
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Why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that. -- Charles Dickens
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Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own. -- Charles Dickens
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She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't. -- Charles Dickens
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Heavy drops fall - drip, drip, drip - upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost's Walk, all night. -- Charles Dickens
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It's a gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's own past, with the day breaking. -- Charles Dickens
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A boy with Somebody-else's pork pie! Stop him! -- Charles Dickens
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It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores. -- Charles Dickens
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The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. -- Charles Dickens
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That sprung up between us. You are not truly happy -- Charles Dickens
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No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse. -- Charles Dickens
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There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going - none of 'em - ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. -- Charles Dickens
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I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more? -- Charles Dickens
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I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner. -- Charles Dickens
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Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph -- Charles Dickens
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To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair ... -- Charles Dickens
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...mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division... -- Charles Dickens
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There is no doubt that Marley was dead. -- Charles Dickens
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He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags. -- Charles Dickens
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Clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the -- Charles Dickens
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I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror. -- Charles Dickens
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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. -- Charles Dickens
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I wear the chains I forged in life. -- Charles Dickens
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Demon - with the highest respect for you - behold your work! -- Charles Dickens
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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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Him to sea. The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary -- Charles Dickens
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Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;. -- Charles Dickens
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She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be. -- Charles Dickens
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Why is it that we can better bear to part in spirit than in body, and while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it? -- Charles Dickens
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Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind. -- Charles Dickens
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The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him. -- Charles Dickens
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"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting." -- Charles Dickens
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He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely. -- Charles Dickens
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The last burst carried the mail to the summit of the hill. -- Charles Dickens
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Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! -- Charles Dickens
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He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit. -- Charles Dickens
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XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock -- Charles Dickens
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Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our Christmas associations and of the lessons that they bring, expands! -- Charles Dickens
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Not that they knew, by name or nature, anything about an Ogre Fact forbid! -- Charles Dickens
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Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me. -- Charles Dickens
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Miss Tox left her seat in a hurry, and returned to her plants; clipping among the stems and leaves, with as little favour as a barber working at so many pauper heads of hair. -- Charles Dickens
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From Monday morning until Saturday night, I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven! -- Charles Dickens
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What do you say, Tom? They both listened. -- Charles Dickens
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I know'd my name to be Magwitch, chrisen'd Abel. How did I know it? Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to be chaffinch, sparrer, thrush. I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds' names come out true, I suppose mine did. -- Charles Dickens
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It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. -- Charles Dickens
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As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger. -- Charles Dickens
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My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight. -- Charles Dickens
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Foul weather didn't know where to have him. -- Charles Dickens
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It would seem as if there never was a book written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of course. -- Charles Dickens
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. -- Charles Dickens
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Near the bottom, somebody fell, and rolled down. Somebody else said it was Copperfield. I was angry at that false report, until, finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foundation for it. -- Charles Dickens
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Of course I know that, Louisa. I do not see the application of the remark.' To do him justice he did not, at all. She -- Charles Dickens
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There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. -- Charles Dickens
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Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood. -- Charles Dickens
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The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful. -- Charles Dickens
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While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea. -- Charles Dickens
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You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins.
Mr. Woodcourt -- Charles Dickens
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tumbril on his way to the Guillotine. -- Charles Dickens
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Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to -- Charles Dickens
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The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. -- Charles Dickens
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Make the betht of uth; not the wurtht! -- Charles Dickens
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Poor Dick was dead! -- Charles Dickens
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We were greatly overcome at parting; and if ever, in my life, I have had a void made in my heart, I had one made that day. -- Charles Dickens
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He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart. -- Charles Dickens
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It is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too -- Charles Dickens
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Money and goods are certainly the best of references. -- Charles Dickens
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...had brought his conduct to a climax, by taking it into his head that he would go to India. Why should he go to India, except to harass me? -- Charles Dickens
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No man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.' 'Ha, -- Charles Dickens
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It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, " as turnips is. It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, " as taxes is. -- Charles Dickens
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Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and so forth. The -- Charles Dickens
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The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. -- Charles Dickens
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I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks. -- Charles Dickens
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Trifles make the sum of life. -- Charles Dickens
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Come up and be dead! Come up and be dead! -- Charles Dickens
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Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! -- Charles Dickens
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Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming? -- Charles Dickens
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He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.

~ Stephen speaking of Rachael -- Charles Dickens
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Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir. -- Charles Dickens
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The "sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine," was hardly known to him, or to the generality of people, by name. -- Charles Dickens
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We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me. -- Charles Dickens
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If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs? -- Charles Dickens
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. -- Charles Dickens
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Oh, you queer soul! -- Charles Dickens
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the sight of me is good for sore eyes -- Charles Dickens
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Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire ... and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one. -- Charles Dickens
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Something Wrong Somewhere -- Charles Dickens
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It occurred to me several times that we should have got on better, if we had not been quite so genteel. We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited. -- Charles Dickens
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My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know! -- Charles Dickens
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Secondly, the Philanthropists had not the good temper of the Pugilists, and used worse language. -- Charles Dickens
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What was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant had passed? -- Charles Dickens
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Vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate, -- Charles Dickens
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It will do her no good to keep herself concealed from me at this moment," said Madame Defarge. "Good patriots will know what that means. Let me see her. Go tell her that I wish to see her. Do you hear? -- Charles Dickens
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Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. -- Charles Dickens
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Thank Heaven that the temples of such spirits are not made with hands, and that they may be even more worthily hung with poor patch-work than with purple and fine linen! -- Charles Dickens
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The beauty of the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either? -- Charles Dickens
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Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. -- Charles Dickens
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It is wonderful how Virtue turns from dirty stockings; and how Vice, married to ribbons and a little gay attire, changes her name, as wedded ladies do, and becomes Romance.
From Charles Dickens' Preface to Oliver Twist, printed in 1841 -- Charles Dickens
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was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of -- Charles Dickens
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But the man continuing to exclaim, "Down, Evremonde!" the face of Evremonde is for a moment turned towards him. Evremonde then sees the Spy, and looks attentively at him, and goes his way. -- Charles Dickens
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"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain ... " -- Charles Dickens
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It had been bright day, for hours, when Oliver opened his eyes; he felt cheerful and happy. The crisis of the disease was safely past. He belonged to the world again. -- Charles Dickens
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What such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. -- Charles Dickens
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Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The -- Charles Dickens
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Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The -- Charles Dickens
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A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. -- Charles Dickens
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. -- Charles Dickens
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It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms. -- Charles Dickens
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You are in every line I have ever read. -- Charles Dickens
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Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues! -- Charles Dickens
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No man ever really loved a woman, lost her, and knew her with a blameless though an unchanged mind, -- Charles Dickens
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. -- Charles Dickens
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APPENDIX 1 DICKENS AND CRUIKSHANK -- Charles Dickens
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He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat. -- Charles Dickens
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Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's misused oppurtunities! -- Charles Dickens
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We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug. -- Charles Dickens
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Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering -- Charles Dickens
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His genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats. -- Charles Dickens
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I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I -- Charles Dickens
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There never was such a goose. -- Charles Dickens
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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. -- Charles Dickens
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Until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys. -- Charles Dickens
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Keep up appearances whatever you do. -- Charles Dickens
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worse,' pursued the Jew, anxiously watching the countenance of his companion. 'His hand was not in. I had nothing to frighten him with; which -- Charles Dickens
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To a young heart everything is fun. -- Charles Dickens
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A word in earnest is as good as a speech. -- Charles Dickens
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Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard -- Charles Dickens
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Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing... -- Charles Dickens
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A narrow winding street, full of offence and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things with a brooding look upon them that looked ill. -- Charles Dickens
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Third - the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. -- Charles Dickens
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What is substantially true of families in this respect, is true of a whole commonwealth. -- Charles Dickens
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A man must take the fat with the lean. -- Charles Dickens
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. -- Charles Dickens
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He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself. -- Charles Dickens
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Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves. -- Charles Dickens
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. -- Charles Dickens
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Thus, with no one to advise her - for she could advise with no one without seeming to complain against him - gentle Florence tossed on an uneasy sea of doubt and hope; and Mr. Carker, like a scaly monster of the deep, swam down below, and kept his shining eye upon her. -- Charles Dickens
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Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life? -- Charles Dickens
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Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment. -- Charles Dickens
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and the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them. -- Charles Dickens
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The world has narrowed to these dimensions, -- Charles Dickens
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Imagine my not letting him sink, as I was his fag!' said Mr. Tartar. -- Charles Dickens
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Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse ( ... ); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures. -- Charles Dickens
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Want and sickness are too common in many stations of life to deserve more notice than is usually bestowed on the most ordinary vicissitudes of human nature. -- Charles Dickens
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You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.'
'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope. -- Charles Dickens
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Yet a gentleman may not keep a public house; may he?' said I. 'Not on any account,' returned Herbert; 'but a public-house may keep a gentleman ... -- Charles Dickens
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I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt -- Charles Dickens
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The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven. -- Charles Dickens
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have you taken leave of your senses -- Charles Dickens
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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. -- Charles Dickens
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it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath. -- Charles Dickens
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. -- Charles Dickens
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If man would help some of us a little more, God would forgive us all the sooner perhaps.' But -- Charles Dickens
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The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men. -- Charles Dickens
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Fairy-land to visit, but a desert to live in -- Charles Dickens
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Among these, accordingly, much discoursing with spirits went on - and it did a world of good which never became manifest. -- Charles Dickens
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Life is made of so many partings welded together -- Charles Dickens
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I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. -- Charles Dickens
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speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air, -- Charles Dickens
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Oliver sat huddled together, in a corner of the cart; bewildered with alarm and apprehension; and figuring strange objects in the gaunt trees, whose branches waved grimly to and fro, as if in some fantastic joy at the desolation of the scene. -- Charles Dickens
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He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village. -- Charles Dickens
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"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future." -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XVIII HOW OLIVER PASSED HIS TIME, IN THE IMPROVING SOCIETY OF HIS REPUTABLE FRIENDS -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXXI INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION -- Charles Dickens
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The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects. -- Charles Dickens
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In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly. -- Charles Dickens
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London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits -- Charles Dickens
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Bless me, yes. There he is. He was very much attached to me, was Dick. Poor Dick! Dear, dear! -- Charles Dickens
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A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. -- Charles Dickens
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The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them a quick look. Then she glanced in a casual manner round -- Charles Dickens
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You are not in a fit state to come here, if you can't come here without spluttering like a bad pen. -- Charles Dickens
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twenty miles of the sea. My -- Charles Dickens
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. -- Charles Dickens
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Keep where you are, -- Charles Dickens
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There wasn't room to swing a cat there. -- Charles Dickens
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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. -- Charles Dickens
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It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. -- Charles Dickens
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There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; -- Charles Dickens
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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. -- Charles Dickens
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A most malicious cough -- Charles Dickens
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It was in vain for Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike; Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate, clasped her tight, and even lifted her from the floor in the struggle that they had. -- Charles Dickens
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The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current. -- Charles Dickens
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He paused for a moment before opening a door on the second story. -- Charles Dickens
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In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time. -- Charles Dickens
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I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope. -- Charles Dickens
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Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves; and Toots had long left off asking any questions of his own mind. Some -- Charles Dickens
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Have a heart that never hardens -- Charles Dickens
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Up to this time, Mr Pancks had transacted little or no business at his quarters in Pentonville, except in the sleeping line; but now that he had become a fortune-teller, -- Charles Dickens
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Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it. -- Charles Dickens
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Eccentricities of genius. -- Charles Dickens
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[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. -- Charles Dickens
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Is questionable whether any man quite relishes being mistaken for any other man; -- Charles Dickens
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Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. -- Charles Dickens
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"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next." -- Charles Dickens
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The American woman is a monstrosity. -- Charles Dickens
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Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it! -- Charles Dickens
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Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. -- Charles Dickens
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Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding. -- Charles Dickens
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She is the prettiest and most engaging little fairy in the world. -- Charles Dickens
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Why?" said Stryver. "Now, I'll put you in a corner," forensically shaking a forefinger at him. "You are a man of business and bound to have a reason. State your reason. Why wouldn't you go?" "Because," said Mr. Lorry, -- Charles Dickens
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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable. -- Charles Dickens
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They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. -- Charles Dickens
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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior. -- Charles Dickens
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Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existance. -- Charles Dickens
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The last of the three now said his say, as he put down his empty drinking vessel and smacked his lips. -- Charles Dickens
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I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead. -- Charles Dickens
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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
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His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more. -- Charles Dickens
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh! -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER LIII AND LAST -- Charles Dickens
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She had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless. -- Charles Dickens
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You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already. -- Charles Dickens
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APPENDIX 2 THE PREFACE TO OLIVER TWIST AND THE NEWGATE NOVEL CONTROVERSY -- Charles Dickens
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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. -- Charles Dickens
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Philosophers are only men in armor after all. -- Charles Dickens
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How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a big one? -- Charles Dickens
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tergiversation and -- Charles Dickens
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Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner. -- Charles Dickens
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Speak well of the law. Take care of your chest and voice, my good friend, and leave the law to take care of itself. I give you that advice -- Charles Dickens
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Neither clock nor weather-glass is ever right; but we believe in both, devoutly. -- Charles Dickens
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There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness. -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XXX RELATES WHAT OLIVER'S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM -- Charles Dickens
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He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet. -- Charles Dickens
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The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. -- Charles Dickens
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Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher. -- Charles Dickens
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Never sign a valentine with your own name. -- Charles Dickens
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Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. -- Charles Dickens
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Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living. -- Charles Dickens
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They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them. -- Charles Dickens
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Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John. -- Charles Dickens
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Discipline must be maintained. -- Charles Dickens
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And a cool four thousand, Pip!
I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds, but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool. -- Charles Dickens
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On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners. -- Charles Dickens
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Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace? -- Charles Dickens
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You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! -- Charles Dickens
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Depth answers only to depth . -- Charles Dickens
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I never saw such curls - how could I, for there never were such curls! - as those she shook out to hide her blushes. -- Charles Dickens
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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. -- Charles Dickens
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That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me. -- Charles Dickens
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He'd write letters by the ream, if it was a capital offence! -- Charles Dickens
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I don't want to know anything. I am not curious! -- Charles Dickens
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Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it. -- Charles Dickens
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-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?
-Because I'll never cry for you again. -- Charles Dickens
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Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it. -- Charles Dickens
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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
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After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus, 'Yes, sir!' Upon which the other half, seeing in the gentleman's face that Yes was wrong, cried out in chorus, 'No, sir!' - as the custom is, in these examinations. 'Of -- Charles Dickens
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Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses
a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. -- Charles Dickens
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That arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER VIII OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD, A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN -- Charles Dickens
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Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart. -- Charles Dickens
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Theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in -- Charles Dickens
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Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques. -- Charles Dickens
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You comfort me so much! I am so ignorant. Am I to kiss you now? Is the moment come? -- Charles Dickens
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. -- Charles Dickens
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Perhaps the good Samaritan was lean and lank, and found it hard to live. Who knows! -- Charles Dickens
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But the shadow of the manner of these Defarges was dark upon himself, for all that, and in his secret mind it troubled him greatly. -- Charles Dickens
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Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough. -- Charles Dickens
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He could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, -- Charles Dickens
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People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received -- Charles Dickens
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. -- Charles Dickens
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He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him. -- Charles Dickens
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The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. -- Charles Dickens
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I should grow sad to think that such among them as I sometimes meet with in my daily walks are scarcely less infirm than I; that time has brought us to a level; and that all distinctions fade and vanish as we take our trembling steps towards the grave. -- Charles Dickens
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He melts, I think. He goes like a drop of froth. You look at him, and there he is. You look at him again, and - there he isn't. -- Charles Dickens
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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? -- Charles Dickens
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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. -- Charles Dickens
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Could not have seemed to myself further from my hopes when I was nearest to her. The -- Charles Dickens
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Darkness is cheap, -- Charles Dickens
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'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.' -- Charles Dickens
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As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals. -- Charles Dickens
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I fear not yet. It would be dangerous for Charles yet. -- Charles Dickens
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Bless their dear little hearts!" said Mrs. Mann with emotion, "they're as well as can be, the dears! Of course, except the two that died last week. -- Charles Dickens
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The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there. -- Charles Dickens
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A brown composition, which looked like diluted pincushions without the covers, and was called porridge. -- Charles Dickens
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Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. -- Charles Dickens
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Order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. -- Charles Dickens
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard. -- Charles Dickens
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I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir. -- Charles Dickens
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We are very glad to see you, Oliver, very,' said the Jew. -- Charles Dickens
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I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you! -- Charles Dickens
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These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life. -- Charles Dickens
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Grief never mended no broken bones. -- Charles Dickens
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I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy. -- Charles Dickens
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[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads. -- Charles Dickens
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He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten. -- Charles Dickens
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Not at all, but I hope to know it better. I am so profoundly interested in its miserable inhabitants." "Hah!" muttered Defarge. "The pleasure of conversing with -- Charles Dickens
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To Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation -- Charles Dickens
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Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope. -- Charles Dickens
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I only ask for information. -- Charles Dickens
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It was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and -- Charles Dickens
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First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The -- Charles Dickens
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Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. -- Charles Dickens
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For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away. -- Charles Dickens
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You have been in every line I ever read ... -- Charles Dickens
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We need never be ashamed of our tears. -- Charles Dickens
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He seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. -- Charles Dickens
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. -- Charles Dickens
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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd. -- Charles Dickens
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some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer -- Charles Dickens
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The law is an ass, an idiot. -- Charles Dickens
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They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me. -- Charles Dickens
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Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil. -- Charles Dickens
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You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready. -- Charles Dickens
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Book the First - Recalled to Life -- Charles Dickens
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There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish. -- Charles Dickens
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I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants -- Charles Dickens
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IT is some years now, since we first conceived a strong veneration for Clowns, and an intense anxiety to know what they did with themselves out of pantomime time, and of the stage. -- Charles Dickens
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I found your nose... It was in my business again.. ( : -- Charles Dickens
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Eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace; -- Charles Dickens
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No amount of regret can make up for a lifetime lost. -- Charles Dickens
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Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog." "And you," returned Sydney, busy concocting the punch, "are such a sensitive and poetical spirit - -- Charles Dickens
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The one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate. -- Charles Dickens
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He then begs to make his dear Twemlow known to his two friends, Mr. Boots and Mr. Brewer - and clearly has no distinct idea which is which. -- Charles Dickens
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great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents, -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Dombey and the world are alone together. -- Charles Dickens
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Thus terminating the interview, during which both ladies had trembled very much, and been marvellously polite
certain indications that they were within an inch of a very desperate quarrel ... -- Charles Dickens
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CHAPTER XLVI THE APPOINTMENT KEPT -- Charles Dickens
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There are dark shadows on earth, but the lights are always brighter. -- Charles Dickens
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Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. -- Charles Dickens
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Let me remember how it used to be, and bring one morning back again. -- Charles Dickens
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What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times. -- Charles Dickens
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Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope. -- Charles Dickens
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Go and be somethingological directly. -- Charles Dickens
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. -- Charles Dickens
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APPENDIX A PREFACE TO THE CHEAP EDITION (1858) -- Charles Dickens
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Facts alone are wanted in life. -- Charles Dickens
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. -- Charles Dickens
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Your sister Betsey Trotwood... -- Charles Dickens
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And, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. -- Charles Dickens
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achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body -- Charles Dickens
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but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt. -- Charles Dickens
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. -- Charles Dickens
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Couldn't something temporary be done with a teapot? -- Charles Dickens
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the public ways were haunted rather than frequented; and -- Charles Dickens
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It is indeed a much greater thing that I do now than I have ever done. -- Charles Dickens
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Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell . . . . -- Charles Dickens
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conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form. -- Charles Dickens
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I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine. -- Charles Dickens
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Mr. Boffin, as if he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared for him. -- Charles Dickens
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Crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to -- Charles Dickens
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He would make a lovely corpse. -- Charles Dickens
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I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should. -- Charles Dickens
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When the voice stopped, he put his hand over his eyes, murmuring -- Charles Dickens
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Novelties please less than they impress. -- Charles Dickens
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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. -- Charles Dickens
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I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age. -- Charles Dickens
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Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost. -- Charles Dickens
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She came out here ... turned this way, must have trod on these stones often. Let me follow in her steps. -- Charles Dickens
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it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. If -- Charles Dickens
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It's not personal; it's professional: only professional. -- Charles Dickens
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. -- Charles Dickens
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You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay -- Charles Dickens
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In love of home, the love of country has its rise. -- Charles Dickens
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I believe, sir,' said Richard Swiveller, taking his pen out of his mouth, 'that you desire to look at these apartments. They are very charming apartments, sir. They command an uninterrupted view of - of over the way, and they are within one minute's walk of - of the corner of the street. -- Charles Dickens
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Why, if it had been--a smothering instead of a wedding, -- Charles Dickens
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A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing -- Charles Dickens
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- Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?
- Yes, and many others - all of them but you. -- Charles Dickens
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All the women knitted. They knitted worthless things; but, the mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eating and drinking; the hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus: if the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine-pinched. -- Charles Dickens
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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. -- Charles Dickens
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We forge the chains we wear in life. -- Charles Dickens
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I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning - and evidently does - quite opposite to my intention. -- Charles Dickens
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You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir! -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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You didn't take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse. -- Charles Dickens
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What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I! -- Charles Dickens
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The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away. -- Charles Dickens
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. -- Charles Dickens
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On the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves -- Charles Dickens
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I ate 'umble pie with an appetite. -- Charles Dickens
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Settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual -- Charles Dickens
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Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly. -- Charles Dickens
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with every lithe action of the girl, with every turn of her wrist, perhaps most of all with her look of dread or horror; they were things of usage. 'Keep -- Charles Dickens
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I must bear it, if you let it in. -- Charles Dickens
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The mere consciousness of an engagement will worry an entire day -- Charles Dickens
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When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready. -- Charles Dickens
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. -- Charles Dickens
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I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause. -- Charles Dickens
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Once out of this court, I'll smash that face of yourn! -- Charles Dickens
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XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still -- Charles Dickens
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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery. -- Charles Dickens
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You have been in every line I have ever read. -- Charles Dickens
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL -- Charles Dickens
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It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself. -- Charles Dickens
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O! Better to have no home in which to lay his head, than to have a home and dread to go to it, through such a cause. -- Charles Dickens
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Tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
Ah, no! -- Charles Dickens
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You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead. -- Charles Dickens
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The journey has been its own reward. That, -- Charles Dickens
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But they're always a-bringing up some new law or other. -- Charles Dickens
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If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. -- Charles Dickens
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What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy. -- Charles Dickens
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The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored. -- Charles Dickens
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Is it possible,' cried Rose, 'that for such a man as this, you can resign every future hope, and the certainty of immediate rescue? It is madness. -- Charles Dickens
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A multitude of people and yet solitude. -- Charles Dickens
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the fire burns up.' So they stood before the fire, waiting: Clennam with his arm about her waist, and the fire shining, -- Charles Dickens
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How goes it, Jacques?" said one of these three to Monsieur Defarge. "Is all the spilt wine swallowed?" "Every drop, Jacques, -- Charles Dickens
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Think; they are not to be communicated. I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps -- Charles Dickens
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You cannot stain a black coat -- Charles Dickens
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He was nothing to me and I could have had no foresight then, that he ever would be anything to me, but it happened that I had this opportunity of observing him well. -- Charles Dickens
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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. -- Charles Dickens
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[T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug. -- Charles Dickens
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There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would NEVER be quiet. Is -- Charles Dickens
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And what about the cash, my existence's jewel? -- Charles Dickens
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People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are -- Charles Dickens
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these memoirs would never have appeared; or, -- Charles Dickens
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And the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It -- Charles Dickens
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The elder Miss Larkin -- Charles Dickens
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When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man, to have so inexhaustible a subject. -- Charles Dickens
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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. -- Charles Dickens
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We men of business, who serve a House, are not our own masters. We have to think of the House more than ourselves -- Charles Dickens
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than any communications -- Charles Dickens
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. -- Charles Dickens
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We must scrunch or be scrunched. -- Charles Dickens
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In came the cook, with her brother's particular friend, the milkman. -- Charles Dickens
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(comparatively) to so few!3 It used -- Charles Dickens
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Their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all comers and goers, -- Charles Dickens
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I won't go so far as to say, that, as it is, I've seen wax-work quite like life, but I've certainly seen some life that was exactly like wax-work. -- Charles Dickens
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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. -- Charles Dickens
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. -- Charles Dickens
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"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy. -- Charles Dickens
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. -- Charles Dickens
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Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves. -- Charles Dickens
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streets, came nearer and nearer. -- Charles Dickens
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There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week. -- Charles Dickens
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Fancy makes me shudder to-night, when all is so black and solemn - " "Let us shudder too. We may know what it is." "It will seem nothing to you. -- Charles Dickens
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I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled. -- Charles Dickens
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I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free. -- Charles Dickens
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My life is one demd horrid grind. -- Charles Dickens
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I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it. -- Charles Dickens
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We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart. -- Charles Dickens
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If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. -- Charles Dickens
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Joe gave me some more gravy. -- Charles Dickens
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Lord, keep my memory green. -- Charles Dickens
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Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness -- Charles Dickens
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Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. -- Charles Dickens
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We count by changes and events within us. Not by years. -- Charles Dickens
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. -- Charles Dickens
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told. -- Charles Dickens
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If they would rather die, ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. -- Charles Dickens