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Less Quotes by Charles Dickens
- Novelties please less than they impress.
- 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.
- …a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or…
- External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than…
- The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once…
- You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was…
- But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions…
- Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around…
- We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We…
- Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such…
- Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second…
- His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any…
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