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House Quotes by Charles Dickens
- They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
- Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...…
- I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the…
- Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and…
- I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you,…
- She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A…
- When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,…
- What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw…
- A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,…
- He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building…
- And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never…
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