You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.
Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."
What do you make, Madam ?"
Many things."
For instance ---"
For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly ,
Shrouds."
The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .


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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...
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