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Firsts Quotes by Charles Dickens
- The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
- Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
- 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…
- Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse…
- The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
- It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to…
- I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in…
- I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I…
- Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never…
- At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in…
- Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of…
- You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the…
- A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a…
- 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…
- Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect…
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