Charles Dickens Quotes, Character Quotes, Eye Quotes

"Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."

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[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

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Marley was dead: to begin with.

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I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

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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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Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

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Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

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To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

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He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

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On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

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The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.

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Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

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Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

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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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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

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"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"

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The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

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