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Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.


Charles Dickens

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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