“Contents Book the First—Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I know how hard it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to support life in myself; but do you know… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have understood that it was, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the water in her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families, whose members… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. Nobody was ever on any account to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there… — 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
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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