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Charles Dickens quotes

English Novelist, Writer February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; "but that's no rule," as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable."
Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile."
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse..."
Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to..."
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "You are in every line I have ever read."
You are in every line I have ever read. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they..."
unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us Charles Dickens
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened..."
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. Charles Dickens
The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again and chuckled till he cried. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my..."
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "To a young heart everything is fun."
To a young heart everything is fun. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that we know it is all meaningless, and say so, while they know it equally and will never say so. Charles Dickens

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