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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Men, Compassion
'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 47 (on the death of Jo)

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Charles Dickens
Growth, Credit, Might
Charles Dickens (2017). “The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…”, p.3228, e-artnow

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy.

Charles Dickens
Healthy, Feet And Walking, Trekking
Charles Dickens (1858). “Household Words”

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens
Home, Stronger, Spokes

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Dickens
Business, Clever, Men

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Charles Dickens
Office, Words Of Wisdom, Castles
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.235

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens
God, Two, Forgive Me
Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1977). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate Editors: W.J. Carlton [and Others]”

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Charles Dickens
Body, Damp
Nicholas Nickleby ch. 34 (1839)

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.

Charles Dickens
Children, Believe, Thinking
"The Personal History of David Copperfield".

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

Charles Dickens
Humility, Pie, Appetite
Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick papers”, p.143

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

Charles Dickens
Stars, Great Expectations, Property
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations”, p.190, Cosimo, Inc.

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Charles Dickens
Secret, Rats, Spooky
Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.391

Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.

Charles Dickens
Love, Blessed, Heaven
Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.289

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens
Pigs, Giving, Mind

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Charles Dickens
Jewels, Cash, Existence
Charles Dickens (2016). “The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.208, Xist Publishing

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

Charles Dickens
Blow, Wrecks, Lasts
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.5904, Delphi Classics

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

Charles Dickens
Heart, My Heart
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.18029, Delphi Classics

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens
Hands, Sorrow, Tears
Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.488, Xist Publishing

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Charles Dickens
Fire, Wish, Weakness
Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.143, Prestwick House Inc

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens
People, Solitude, Multitudes
Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.87, The Planet

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

Charles Dickens
Passion, Thinking, Gentleman
Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.371

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

Charles Dickens
Finals, Parting
Charles Dickens “The best of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations (All Unabridged)”, e-artnow sro

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Charles Dickens
Looks, Faces, Morrow

There wasn't room to swing a cat there.

Charles Dickens
Cat, Swings, Rooms
'David Copperfield' (1850) ch. 35

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

Charles Dickens
Children, Father, Boys
Charles Dickens (2002). “The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870”, p.187, Clarendon Press

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