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She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
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humor
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Charles Dickens |
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Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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love
great-expectations
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Charles Dickens |
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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. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the ..
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Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.
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Charles Dickens |
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Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.
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Charles Dickens |
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If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
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Charles Dickens |
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It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death."
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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
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Charles Dickens |
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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
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Charles Dickens |
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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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Charles Dickens |
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REMEMBER HOW STRONG WE ARE IN OUR HAPPINESS, AND HOW WEAK HE IS IN IS MISERY!
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Charles Dickens |
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
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Charles Dickens |
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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Charles Dickens |
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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
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Charles Dickens |
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And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
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Charles Dickens |
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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.
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light
spirit
sadness
moonlight
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Charles Dickens |
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ac03477
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Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
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Charles Dickens |
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He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.
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Charles Dickens |
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You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
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Charles Dickens |
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
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passion
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Charles Dickens |
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He would make a lovely corpse.
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Charles Dickens |
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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
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depression
life
philosophy
dickens
sydney-carton
charles-dickens
self-loathing
alone
self-worth
depressed
lonely
sad
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Charles Dickens |
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
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heroes
famous-beginnings
coincidence
clocks
birth
midnight
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Charles Dickens |
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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
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love
our-mutual-friend
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Charles Dickens |
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Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
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Charles Dickens |
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And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.
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Charles Dickens |
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
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Charles Dickens |
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hnk ktb .. Glfh 'fDl m fyh
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reading
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Charles Dickens |
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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
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Charles Dickens |
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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
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Charles Dickens |
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It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.
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Charles Dickens |
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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
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risk
motivation
submission
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Charles Dickens |
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Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
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Charles Dickens |
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So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!..."
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great-expectations
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He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael
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love
waiting
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Charles Dickens |
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A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
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love
our-mutual-friend
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It was all Mrs. Bumble. She do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction." If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatica..
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marriage
woman
responsibility
funny
wives
law
matrimony
husbands
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The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
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memories
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Charles Dickens |
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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
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happiness
pip
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You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive ."
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funny
humor
shrouds
rude
revolution
mob
france
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Charles Dickens |
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f4f2dce
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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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Charles Dickens |
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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
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social-justice
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Charles Dickens |
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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
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Charles Dickens |
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There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us; and if we dream at s..
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sleep
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