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Letter "C" » Charles Dickens Quotes
«The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.»
«Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door»
«No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another»
«Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn»
«Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving- how not to do it.»
Author: 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.»
«This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.»
«Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.»
«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?»
«I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close. . . .»
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