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Such Quotes by Charles Dickens
- Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who…
- It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes…
- Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
- Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
- 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…
- ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably…
- 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…
- I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and…
- All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should…
- Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter…
- I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
- And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done--…
- Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.…
- The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.
- 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…
- Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young…
- Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister,…
- 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…
- Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
- Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were…
- A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I…
- I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one…
- All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
- The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it…
- This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing…
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