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Over Quotes by Charles Dickens
- The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a…
- To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.…
- We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done…
- 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,…
- The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself…
- He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying…
- At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and…
- The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in…
- Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
- 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…
- Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of…
- 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,…
- Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and…
- Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers…
- You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would…
- I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be…
- I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to…
- Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think…
- Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle…
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