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Familiar Quotes by Charles Dickens
- Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten…
- Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of…
- Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the…
- So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
- Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels,…
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