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Related Quinn, I..." He whispers the words, unfinished, into my mouth as the space between us disappears and... JESSI KIRBY Before I could flinch, he planted his warm lips against mine, wrapping his arms around my waist. I d... SANG KROMAH He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk ... PHILIP KERR The ball was no longer in his hands. It was on the ground, and he dove on it, ERIC KNIGHT I believe that he is wiping his muddy shoes on the face of victims, using them as the doormat as he ... KEVIN LYONS He even played for them. I was interested in him from when I was young so it was very exciting. Char... ALEXEI SMERTIN If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire... VICTOR HUGO Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow wit... BRAD MELTZER On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he ask... JANE AUSTEN And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what ... J.K. ROWLING Idiot," I said, before grinning broadly and crushing his mouth to mine. "We need to pick new p... MOLLY HARPER His breath was warm on her neck as he bent his head, resting his cheek against her hair. Her heart b... SARAH J. MAAS A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft... LOUIS NIZER As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, ... PHILIP YANCEY Here, sleep with your back against me. I shall protect you better this way.” She nodded, shu... ANGELA QUARLES When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ... SEX AND THE CITY He didn't go to his mouth on the mound. He was simply sweating profusely on his face and was wiping ... PHIL GARNER A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on boo... BESA KOSOVA For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, book... STEFAN ZWEIG I watched him now, his hands working gingerly, as if he were learning to use them for the first time... MITCH ALBOM Of the 3,500 signatures we gave to them, most of them are in his district. If he was really for his ... CYNTHIA MADDOX The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and... ADONIRAM JUDSON Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Mom?” he whispered. “Dad?” They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry look... J.K. ROWLING If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t... STEPHEN KING He does a good job staying on the ground, not going for shot fakes, using his length to his advantag... JORDAN FARMAR The greatest book about giving that I've ever read is 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, about ... TED TURNER For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams... ROBERTO BOLAñO Trent’s chest rises with a quick inhale as his hands lift to grab mine and pull them out, placing ... K.A. TUCKER We were able to save a little ground around the turn. The way he switched leads turning for home, he... AARON GRYDER He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one... JOHN STUART MILL And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. BIBLE This new thing that sprang up between them, it was... astral . It reshaped the air, and was LAINI TAYLOR but it was like trying to keep water in his cupped hands; the details were now trickling away as fas... J.K. ROWLING (On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has i... ANTHONY TROLLOPE Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do ... ART MALIK Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of o... DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and... BEN OKRI A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them,... MELANCTHON The Father and His Sons
A father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselv... AESOP What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see ... NEAL STEPHENSON Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths a... NORA SAKAVIC The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse o... ROBERT CAPA I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I ... DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI His hands fluttered like birds, each with a fancy silk ribbon to weave into their nest, TED KOOSER I coax my palm into his lapel in search of my wish, returning his feverish kiss. "Checkmate, you son... A.G. HOWARD And when Finnikin grabbed her to him and buried his face in her neck and then bent down and placed h... MELINA MARCHETTA I would describe Stephen then pretty much as I would describe him now. He is a very serious person. ... GOLDY HYDER I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a hor... VICENTE FOX He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th... T.H. WHITE We walk into Joshua’s room. We don’t do it very often; it’s a very discouraging thing. A few w... DENIS MCBRIDE I feel shock splinter through him, his body going rigid. Then he relaxes, melting into me, stepping ... JESSICA KHOURY The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if h... GEORGE WASHINGTON The sun was so bright outside that for a moment, I couldn’t see. But then I could, and there he wa... KRISTAN HIGGINS You said their prayer – is this the religion you believe in, then?" „I believe in them all... BRANDON SANDERSON He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose. REV. R. H. BARHAM Daniel took Luce’s hands in his. He closed his eyes, inhaled, and let his massive white wings unfu... LAUREN KATE As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be
in the furnace with them.
- ... CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON [He puts gum in his hat] I always keep gum in my back pocket, ... If we make the third out when I am... LUIS GONZALEZ I am going to miss each one of them for special reasons. Zinck, for his maturity and the forwardness... GREG STROBEL Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I couldn’t talk about it, about them—not yet. So I breathed “Later” and hooked my feet aroun... SARAH J. MAAS If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would ... RACHEL VAN DYKEN I felt his other hand sear hot against my cheek. He bent his head, and in a voice that Jack couldn�... SARAH ALDERSON The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame... BRENNA YOVANOFF And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the groun... BIBLE ...He kissed me again, farther up my neck, and I pushed him back against the wall. My min... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was sagging. No one said they saw the gun in his pocket. He couldn't stick a gun in his pants. KEVIN O'CONNOR He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I be... HENNING MANKELL He had his hands in his pockets the whole time. He had his hands on something big. He had no license... WILLIAM BUCHANAN I stood on the ground, pulling the borrowed trench coat around me. I stood on Holly’s cloak, which... LAURELL K. HAMILTON [When at Portsmouth two seasons ago, on a similar loan deal to the one which brought him to Charlton... ALEXEI SMERTIN Excuse me,’ I said cheerily. ‘Is the job still going?’ I pointed to the notice. ‘... FIONA THRUST Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) As soon as he was half-awake he slipped his knickers off. Holding them close to his face, he handled... DEREK RAYMOND It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the... HENRY DAVID THOREAU He was there for them as he was for us right here in New York City, inspiring a nation as he stood o... BERNARD KERIK When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because ... MATTHEW PEARL He turned to stare down at his latte, wiping hard at his cheeks as the tears started to fall. He did... SUZANNE YOUNG Both of them were so mature. They really loved each other. Both of them also loved their families in... LESA NEEHAN His hand moved to cup her cheek, his palm warm against her cold skin, and she found that her own fea... CASSANDRA CLARE Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits be... XENOPHON Rushing out the door on his way back to the street, he ran into someone with his shoulder. Turning t... AMANDA M. LYONS I'm willing to find out what this thing is going on between us. Are you?" "If we weren't outsid... SIMONE ELKELES Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some... SALMAN RUSHDIE There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN You're not moving your body the correct way, Here, just let me show you." Though it was the old... SARAH J. MAAS I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he... LIBBA BRAY He made me think differently... besides his smile makes my tummy warm. DYAN CANNON I kissed him. His arms slid around me and drew me close, and we stayed like that for a while, my han... JULIE KAGAWA I can feel his hand on mine. I can feel his arm on mine. A lot of times he climbs up into the bed, n... CHRISTOPHER REEVE The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside h... RACHEL JOYCE Dorina?" Louis Cesare's voice was loud in my ear. The one I had squeezed against the phone, whi... KAREN CHANCE [Mulder] slowed as he approached the front walk, slipping his left hand into his pocket to wrap arou... CHARLES GRANT A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then ... HARDY AMIES I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents wa... KELLEY ARMSTRONG The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on t... LAURIE LEE If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unle... BERTRAND RUSSELL These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes liste... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. CHARLES DICKENS Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir... CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. CHARLES DICKENS It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in... CHARLES DICKENS The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can... CHARLES DICKENS There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee... CHARLES DICKENS There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. CHARLES DICKENS There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. CHARLES DICKENS I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w... CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w... CHARLES DICKENS There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. CHARLES DICKENS Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear... CHARLES DICKENS You have been the last dream of my soul. CHARLES DICKENS I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. CHARLES DICKENS Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happ... CHARLES DICKENS Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. CHARLES DICKENS The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. CHARLES DICKENS Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sor... CHARLES DICKENS What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us... CHARLES DICKENS Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Freque... CHARLES DICKENS When found, make a note of. CHARLES DICKENS When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bod... CHARLES DICKENS Its very strange, said Mr. Dick that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfect... CHARLES DICKENS A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned dam... CHARLES DICKENS God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all. CHARLES DICKENS If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a assa idiot. If thats the eye of the law, the... CHARLES DICKENS What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the
taper of conwiviality, and the wing... CHARLES DICKENS Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship;
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CHARLES DICKENS I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to ment... CHARLES DICKENS When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now... CHARLES DICKENS It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must b... CHARLES DICKENS The pure, the bright, The beautiful that stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordles... CHARLES DICKENS Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted dow... CHARLES DICKENS To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through ... CHARLES DICKENS The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear br... CHARLES DICKENS Philosophers are only men in armor after all. CHARLES DICKENS Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; i... CHARLES DICKENS A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies ... CHARLES DICKENS If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stag... CHARLES DICKENS Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. CHARLES DICKENS I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfu... CHARLES DICKENS Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. CHARLES DICKENS I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many i... CHARLES DICKENS Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encour... CHARLES DICKENS I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't tru... CHARLES DICKENS The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be... CHARLES DICKENS I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. CHARLES DICKENS Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares an... CHARLES DICKENS Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not d... CHARLES DICKENS Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays... CHARLES DICKENS Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages fr... CHARLES DICKENS He would make a lovely corpse. CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading... CHARLES DICKENS It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. CHARLES DICKENS Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the ... CHARLES DICKENS Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of whic... CHARLES DICKENS The law is sic a ass - a idiot. CHARLES DICKENS Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept. CHARLES DICKENS A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud... CHARLES DICKENS After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back ... CHARLES DICKENS Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. CHARLES DICKENS A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre... CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. CHARLES DICKENS How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and ... CHARLES DICKENS Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they... CHARLES DICKENS We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with th... CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it,... CHARLES DICKENS There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. CHARLES DICKENS My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, ann... CHARLES DICKENS With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. CHARLES DICKENS There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. CHARLES DICKENS They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet ... CHARLES DICKENS I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tom... CHARLES DICKENS The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. CHARLES DICKENS I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. CHARLES DICKENS . . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourse... CHARLES DICKENS Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in ... CHARLES DICKENS He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. CHARLES DICKENS A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not ... CHARLES DICKENS It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the... CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . CHARLES DICKENS A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person... CHARLES DICKENS There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. CHARLES DICKENS This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. CHARLES DICKENS A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. CHARLES DICKENS Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the
copper. A smell like a washing-day! Th... CHARLES DICKENS Circumstances beyond my individual control. CHARLES DICKENS A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! CHARLES DICKENS God bless us every one. CHARLES DICKENS Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random
digits is, of course, in a state of s... CHARLES DICKENS "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a
idiot." CHARLES DICKENS I never will desert Mr. Micawber. CHARLES DICKENS 'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. CHARLES DICKENS I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where he may. CHARLES DICKENS If you don't like the weather, wait a minute CHARLES DICKENS Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encou... CHARLES DICKENS If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich
Fair is--a periodical breaking out, ... CHARLES DICKENS The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in
our actions. Our inner balance a... CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of ... CHARLES DICKENS A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ... CHARLES DICKENS Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night! CHARLES DICKENS Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a
piece of orange-peel. CHARLES DICKENS A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a
sheet of paper. CHARLES DICKENS There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
to them except in the form of bread... CHARLES DICKENS The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that th... CHARLES DICKENS Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God. CHARLES DICKENS Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral
standards and values above the dis... CHARLES DICKENS The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. 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... CHARLES DICKENS 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 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. CHARLES DICKENS In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi... CHARLES DICKENS Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that ... CHARLES DICKENS A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre... CHARLES DICKENS "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated.... CHARLES DICKENS Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last CHARLES DICKENS Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one CHARLES DICKENS 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... CHARLES DICKENS Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge... CHARLES DICKENS Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d... CHARLES DICKENS Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o... CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! CHARLES DICKENS 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. CHARLES DICKENS 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. CHARLES DICKENS It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ... CHARLES DICKENS The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ... CHARLES DICKENS [Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee... CHARLES DICKENS In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,... CHARLES DICKENS The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth... CHARLES DICKENS 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... CHARLES DICKENS He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug in a Pick... CHARLES DICKENS The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau... CHARLES DICKENS 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... CHARLES DICKENS 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... CHARLES DICKENS Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli... CHARLES DICKENS He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h... CHARLES DICKENS Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. CHARLES DICKENS She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. CHARLES DICKENS There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ... CHARLES DICKENS "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison." CHARLES DICKENS Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer... CHARLES DICKENS Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb... CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one! CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat... CHARLES DICKENS 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... CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug. CHARLES DICKENS 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... CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly. CHARLES DICKENS 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. CHARLES DICKENS 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