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Short Quotes by Charles Dickens
- I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the…
- Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
- The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever…
- 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…
- That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their…
- And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
- Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into…
- You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take…
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness .…
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