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Would Be Quotes by Charles Dickens
- The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and…
- Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
- If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
- It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were…
- We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much…
- It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it;…
- 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…
- 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…
- Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end…
- I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze…
- 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…
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