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Letter "C" » Charles Dickens Quotes
«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.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
An Ancient, bluff, bluffer, close at hand, feasting, hospitality, Open Season, preparing, revelry
«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 . . .»
«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»
«The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are closed upon the past from this hour. I forgive you your part in to-morrow's wickedness. May God forgive my own!»
Author: Charles Dickens
«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!»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Childhood,
Christmas
| Keywords:
Delusions, fireside, firesides, recall, The old man, The Traveler, transport, transported, transporting, transports, traveler
«It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Children,
Christmas
| Keywords:
Christmas, founder, foundering, founders, mighty, The Founders
«The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.»
«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.»
«I've a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind . . . you behave yourself !»
«Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
foot, hand and foot, office, pens, red, red tape, skewer, Skewered, skewering, tape, tapes, taping, through and through, through with
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