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Letter "C" » Charles Dickens Quotes
«In this way they went on, and on, and on--in the language of the story-books--until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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graveyard, marking, spire, spires, The Dial, The Village, village
«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 him-self to let it eat him away.»
«`If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble, . . . `the law is a ass - a idiot.'»
«Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!»
Author: Charles Dickens
«Although it's a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops.»
«With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other.»
«Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it»
«If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Italians
«Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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contemplate
«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.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Dreams
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