Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: You can only...

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...

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Charles Dickens: Take nothing on...

Charles Dickens: Take nothing on...

Take nothing on its looks: take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Charles Dickens: An idea, like...

Charles Dickens: An idea, like...

An idea, like a ghost . . . must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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Charles Dickens: Train up a...

Charles Dickens: Train up a...

Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of...

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Charles Dickens: Ride on! Rough-shod...

Charles Dickens: 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...

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Charles Dickens: It will be...

Charles Dickens: It will be...

It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature . . . are among its worst and...

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Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to...

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Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

He'd make a lovely corpse.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 25
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Charles Dickens: Industry is the...

Charles Dickens: Industry is the...

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

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Charles Dickens: I feel an...

Charles Dickens: I feel an...

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless...

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Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Charles Dickens: 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...

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Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

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Charles Dickens: Bring in the...

Charles Dickens: Bring in the...

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Source: The...

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Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch....

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Charles Dickens: Father Time is...

Charles Dickens: 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...

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Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to...

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Charles Dickens: What is the...

Charles Dickens: 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...

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Charles Dickens: Mr. and Mrs....

Charles Dickens: 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...

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Charles Dickens: Great men are...

Charles Dickens: Great men are...

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

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Charles Dickens: It is a...

Charles Dickens: It is a...

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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