Charles Dickens Quotes, Animal Quotes, Mind Quotes

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

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Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

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The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.

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Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

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What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

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"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"

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One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

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I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

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A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

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