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Few Quotes by Charles Dickens
- All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his…
- The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is…
- His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of…
- A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men…
- There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
- There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when…
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