“unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Caleb was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
