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Letter "C" » Charles Dickens Quotes
«[And the holiday season is a time in which thoughts and efforts naturally turn in this direction.] We choose this time, ... because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«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!»
Author: Charles Dickens
«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.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«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.»
«A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a monster.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.»
Author: 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.»
Author: 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.»
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