En zo, bij dag en bij nacht, onder zon en sterrenlicht, over heuvelen en door eenzame vlakten, over land en zee trekkend, gaande en komende zoals het lot wil, steeds andere mensen ontmoetend, zo trekken wij, rusteloze reizigers door de pelgrimstocht die het leven heet.


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CHARLES DICKENS
The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
CHARLES DICKENS
It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go to...
CHARLES DICKENS
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick...
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
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I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothi...
CHARLES DICKENS
Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.
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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi...
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that ...
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...
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"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated....
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last
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Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
CHARLES DICKENS
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
CHARLES DICKENS
It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain...
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Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge...
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d...
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o...
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi...
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
CHARLES DICKENS
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
CHARLES DICKENS
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
CHARLES DICKENS
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
CHARLES DICKENS
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
CHARLES DICKENS
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
CHARLES DICKENS
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
CHARLES DICKENS
We forge the chains we wear in life.
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ...
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ...
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[Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee...
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi...
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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,...
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth...
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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...
CHARLES DICKENS
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
CHARLES DICKENS
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
CHARLES DICKENS
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't...
CHARLES DICKENS
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t...
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He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pick...
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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau...
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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but...
CHARLES DICKENS
I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
CHARLES DICKENS
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, le...
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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
CHARLES DICKENS
The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection...
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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli...
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He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h...
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ...
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"And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer...
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...
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God bless us, every one!
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from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
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Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
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Some credit in being jolly.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS
Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS
Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS