The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.


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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.
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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