Quotes
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The things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield
NOVEL
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield
NOVEL
He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it -- nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes.
Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
NOVEL
The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement.
Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
NOVEL
Here and there, an old tub was put to catch the droppings of rain-water from a roof, or they were banked up with mud into a little pond like a large dirt-pie.
Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
NOVEL
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
NOVEL
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
NOVEL
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
NOVEL
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!
Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
NOVEL
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
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Barnaby Rudge
NOVEL
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities
NOVEL
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities
NOVEL
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities
NOVEL
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.
Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities
NOVEL
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities
NOVEL
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities
NOVEL
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities
NOVEL
His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol
NOVEL
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol
NOVEL
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol
NOVEL