Tag: Charles Dickens
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He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens
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We are so very ‘umble.
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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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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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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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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He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
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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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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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens