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Alone Quotes by Charles Dickens
- To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen…
- Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
- At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and…
- It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
- The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood…
- A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance…
- The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear…
- Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root…
- The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to…
- My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen…
- I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps…
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