Charles Dickens Quotes, Summer Quotes, Reading Quotes

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

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Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

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In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly.

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Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

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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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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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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

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We must scrunch or be scrunched.

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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

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Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

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I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

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I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

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Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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