It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking… — 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
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