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Quite Quotes by Charles Dickens
- 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.…
- 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…
- When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object…
- 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…
- And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as…
- He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up…
- You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a…
- Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
- There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant…
- All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish…
- a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
- 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…
- He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his…
- 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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- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough
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