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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 object at a time.
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Charles Dickens |
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All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
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Charles Dickens |
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Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
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Charles Dickens |
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Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
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Charles Dickens |
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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
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Charles Dickens |
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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you."
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Charles Dickens |
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There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.
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Charles Dickens |
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The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad r..
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loved-ones
helplessness
sickness
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Charles Dickens |
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I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
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Charles Dickens |
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Trifles make the sum of life.
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Charles Dickens |
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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.
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Charles Dickens |
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Please, sir, I want some more.
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oliver-twist
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Charles Dickens |
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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...
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Charles Dickens |
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Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug."
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Charles Dickens |
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Marley was dead: to begin with.
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Charles Dickens |
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And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.
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dark
inspirational
defarge
ironic
angry
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Charles Dickens |
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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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Charles Dickens (David Copperfield) |
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Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
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money
debt
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Charles Dickens |
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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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Charles Dickens |
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LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as bi..
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bleak-house
dickens
classic-literature
fog
courts
november
justice-system
fall
london
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Charles Dickens |
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Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
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Charles Dickens |
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He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)
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happiness
pleasure
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Charles Dickens |
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There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
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Charles Dickens |
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
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surprise
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Charles Dickens |
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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
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humor
dickens
witness
lie
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Charles Dickens |
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When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.
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Charles Dickens |
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Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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Charles Dickens |
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Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
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thoughts
darkness
optimism
subconscious
perspective
perception
pessimism
human-nature
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Charles Dickens |
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Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
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Charles Dickens |
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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
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Charles Dickens |
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God bless us, every one!
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prayer
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Charles Dickens |
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I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting."
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women
love
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Charles Dickens |
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The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.
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Charles Dickens |
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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
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wisdom
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Charles Dickens |
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You must know,' said Estella, condescending to me as a beautiful and brilliant woman might, 'that I have no heart--if that has anything to do with my memory.' I got through some jargon to the effect that I took the liberty of doubting that. That I knew better. That there could be no such beauty without it. 'Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt,' said Estella, 'and, of course, if it ceased to beat I should cease ..
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Charles Dickens |
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
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laugh
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Charles Dickens |
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Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."
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Charles Dickens |
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I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"
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Charles Dickens |
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How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.
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pain
sad
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Charles Dickens |
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Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in .)"
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writer
inspirational
fulfillment
last-words
natural
rules
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Charles Dickens |
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A very little key will open a very heavy door.
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keys
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Charles Dickens |
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I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. 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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Charles Dickens |
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And how did little Tim behave?" asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content. "As good as gold," said Bob, "and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upo..
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Charles Dickens |
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So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
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success
estella
training
failure
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