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Charles Dickens
You can only...
You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick...
Take nothing on...
Take nothing on its looks: take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
An idea, like...
An idea, like a ghost . . . must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Train up a...
Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of...
Ride on! Rough-shod...
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the...
It will be...
It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature . . . are among its worst and...
A wonderful fact...
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to...
He'd make a...
He'd make a lovely corpse.
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 25
-- Charles Dickens,...
Industry is the...
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
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I feel an...
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless...
Home is a...
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the...
Think! I've got...
Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
Bring in the...
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Source: The...
Change begets change....
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch....
Father Time is...
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly...
Minerva House was...
Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to...
What is the...
What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never...
Mr. and Mrs....
Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the...
Great men are...
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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It is a...
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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