Charles Dickens Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Men Quotes

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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I wear the chains I forged in life.

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Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

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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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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

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

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

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Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

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Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

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