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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.
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Sketches by Boz (1836)
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Master Humphrey's Clock (1840)
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
Great Expectations (1860)
It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.
Sketches by Boz (1836)
Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people’s wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on ’em.
Sketches by Boz (1836)
The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
Dombey and Son (1846)
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
Great Expectations (1860)
Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.
Great Expectations (1860)
Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept.
The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.
Sketches by Boz (1836)
'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
Our Mutual Friend (1864)
A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
Oliver Twist (1838)
Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...
Great Expectations (1860)
They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them — all porter and skittles.
Pickwick Papers (1836)