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Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness

Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

Charles Dickens
Character, Two, Interesting
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.171

So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin-retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.

Charles Dickens
Character, Oil, Interesting
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.161

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

Charles Dickens
Character, Thinking, Safety
Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.67

... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

Charles Dickens
Character, Eye, Fire
Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.404

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

Charles Dickens
Determination, Character, Interesting
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].”

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Charles Dickens
Rights, Words Of Wisdom, Dull
Charles Dickens (1860). “All the Year Round”

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

Charles Dickens
Keys, People, Words Of Wisdom
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17038, Delphi Classics

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

Charles Dickens
Men, Words Of Wisdom, Mind
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4921, Delphi Classics

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

Charles Dickens
Passion, Men, Evil
Charles Dickens (2017). “Children's Tales from Dickens – The Great Classics & The Wonderful Stories for Children (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Holiday Romance, The Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Christmas Stories, A Child’s Dream of a Star…”, p.1935, e-artnow

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Charles Dickens
Pity Love, Words Of Wisdom, Thank God
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.270

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens
Girl, Discipline, Advice
'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 27 (Mr Bagnet)

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Charles Dickens
Two, Small Changes, Society
Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family”, p.299

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Charles Dickens
Charity, Excitement, Pleasure
Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.161

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens
Children, Pride, Men
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2066, Delphi Classics

Marley was dead: to begin with.

Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol, Marley
Charles Dickens (2015). “A Christmas Carol”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Charles Dickens
Phrases, Uncertain, Temper
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2469, Delphi Classics

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens
Eye, Hypocrisy, Shining
Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 8 (1844)

We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Thinking, Expectations
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.70

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Charles Dickens
Speak
Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities (Falcon Classics) [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 24]”, p.136, Charles Dickens

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

Charles Dickens
Girl, Children, Growing Up
Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.61, Courier Corporation

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

Charles Dickens
Strong, Water, Pieces
Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

Charles Dickens
Character, Winter, Giving
Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.

Charles Dickens
Father, Heart, Garden
Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.

Charles Dickens
Girl, Dream, Children
Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Charles Dickens
Crush, Yield, Humanity
Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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