Charles Dickens Quotes, Past Quotes, Bores You Quotes

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

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"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."

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When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

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We forge the chains we wear in life.

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Oliver Twist has asked for more!

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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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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

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To a young heart everything is fun.

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What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

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The American woman is a monstrosity.

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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

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My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

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How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.

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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

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and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

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