Tag: Charles Dickens
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens
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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
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.
Charles Dickens