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I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens
Love, Lost Youth, Ideas
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.237

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Charles Dickens
Baby, Literature, World
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.429

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Faithful, World
Charles Dickens (2015). “A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics”, p.99, World Classic

"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Want
Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.326

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Charles Dickens
Children, Grieving, Two
Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cattermole, Daniel Maclise, Gino Doria (1871). “The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens”, p.6

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens
Trust, Honesty, Business
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Charles Dickens
People, Coats, Holiness
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.141

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Dickens
Cities, Mind, Vision
Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.385, Barnes & Noble

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Thinking
Charles Dickens (1852). “Bleak House”, p.108

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

Charles Dickens
Littles, Making Money, Easy

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Mind
Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...”, p.435

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

Charles Dickens
Travel, Journey, Forgiving
Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.21, Kartindo.com

If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.

Charles Dickens
Children, Wife, Islam

She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

Charles Dickens
Character, Interesting, Ungrateful
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.230

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Charles Dickens
Political, Preparation, Political Life

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

Charles Dickens
Philosophical, Heart, Past
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Struggle, Years
Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.305, Penguin

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Charles Dickens
Morning, Light, Long Ago
Great Expectations ch. 59 (1862 ed.)

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

Charles Dickens
Circles, Needs, Survivor
Charles Dickens (2017). “OLIVER TWIST (Illustrated Edition): Including “The Life of Charles Dickens” & Criticism of the Work”, p.245, e-artnow

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Charles Dickens
Rain, Fall, Wind
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.3

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Dickens
Law, Knowing, Shaving
Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.168

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

Charles Dickens
Dream, Sleep, Eye
"The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens".

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

Charles Dickens
Men, Views
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.337

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Effort
Charles Dickens (2015). “Oliver Twist, Volume 3 (of 3) (Illustrations)”, p.21, RICHARD BENTLEY

Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.

Charles Dickens
Class, Two, People
Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.71

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