QUOTES by Charles Dickens
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"The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him."
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"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."
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"It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present."
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"I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished."
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"Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you."
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"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."
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"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."
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"I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time."
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"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!"
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"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."
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"There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you."
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"There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose."
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"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."
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"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."
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"No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."
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"In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)"
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"And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself."
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"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice."
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"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me."
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"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."
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"Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again."
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"Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?"
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"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."
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"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."
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"Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood."
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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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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
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"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
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"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day."
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"And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire."
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"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
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