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May Quotes by Charles Dickens
- If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to…
- Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.
- Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
- One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .…
- You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What…
- You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what…
- May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may…
- The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year…
- Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
- If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the…
- "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove…
- I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that…
- Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the…
- It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its…
- Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
- May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
- You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy…
- Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
- I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you…
- Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter…
- There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The…
- Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face…
- Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
- [She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
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