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Before I go, he said, and paused -- I may kiss her? It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

Charles Dickens
Children, Kissing, May
Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.532, Barnes & Noble

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

Charles Dickens
Character, Agony, Numbers
CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.289

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Charles Dickens
Southern, Desire, Pieces

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Dickens
Godmother, Good Things, Lost
Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.452, Cosimo, Inc.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Dickens
Games, Words Of Wisdom, Delight
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.246

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Memories, Years
Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.448, e-artnow

Have a heart that never hardens

Charles Dickens
Heart
Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...”

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Charles Dickens
Strong, Struggle, Words Of Wisdom
Charles Dickens (1848). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation”, p.295

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

Charles Dickens
Christmas, New Year, Years
"Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales".

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens
Couple, Hands, People
Charles Dickens (1995). “The Letters of Charles Dickens”

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, New Year, Years
Charles Dickens (1846). “¬The Chimes”

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

Charles Dickens
Parent, Words Of Wisdom, Religion
Charles Dickens (1852). “Bleak House”, p.101

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

Charles Dickens
Wise, Laughter, People
Charles Dickens (2004). “A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.57, Sparklesoup LLC

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Charles Dickens
Expectations, Too Late, World
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Men, Feelings
Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens
Law, People, Would Be
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2312, Delphi Classics

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Dickens
Age, Matter, Fairytale
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.15543, Delphi Classics

The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

Charles Dickens
Character, Eye, Men
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.65

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Men, Brave
Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.135

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Son
Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.5, Xist Publishing

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens
Art, People, Dirt

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Charles Dickens
Reading, Writing, Character
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.165

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.

Charles Dickens
Sex, Character, Men
Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.6

I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Should Have, Broken
Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.169

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Charles Dickens
Country, War, Rain
Charles Dickens (1867). “Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times”, p.90

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