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| Quotations from Charles Dickens |
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
-- Abstinence |
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
-- Age And Aging |
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If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
-- America |
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
-- Audiences |
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
-- Babies |
Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
-- Bargains |
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
-- Books And Reading |
Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
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