Charles Dickens Quotes, Way In Life Quotes, Expectations Quotes

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham

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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

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Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

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He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

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Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

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

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Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

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Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

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I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

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A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

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But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

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"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

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"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

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