Charles Dickens Quotes, Judging Quotes, Fancy Quotes

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

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It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

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They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

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Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ.

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I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.

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A good thing can't be cruel.

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So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

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Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

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I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

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-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

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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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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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