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Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

Charles Dickens
Christian, Years, Games
Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.40, Courier Corporation

When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Book, Dark
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6820, Delphi Classics

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Dickens
Might, Stairs, Lorry
Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.62, Penguin

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.

Charles Dickens
Dream, Heart, Night
Charles Dickens (2015). “David Copperfield: Classic English Literature”, p.790, 谷月社

But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

Charles Dickens
Rain, Heart, Soul
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist”, p.272, Cosimo, Inc.

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!

Charles Dickens
Book, Reading, Fire
Charles Dickens (2011). “Great Expectations (Illustrated)”, p.50, Top Five Books LLC

He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Children, Home
"A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford".

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens
Fire, Wind, Tale Of Two Cities
Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.277, Penguin

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Play, Suffering
Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.425, Wordsworth Editions

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Charles Dickens
Men, Departed, Scrooge
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.90

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Charles Dickens
Scene, Leafs, Withered
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.106

How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

Charles Dickens
Heartbreak, Taken, Unrequited Love
Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.193

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

Charles Dickens
New Year, Angel, Light
Charles Dickens (2016). “A Christmas Carol”, p.85, Charles Dickens

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

Charles Dickens
Morning, Halloween, Night
Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.239

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

Charles Dickens
Summer, Spiritual, Winter
Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.123, GENERAL PRESS

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

Charles Dickens
Happiness, Peace, Morning
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.3654, e-artnow

United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

Charles Dickens
Hot, Muffins, Baking
'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 2

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

Charles Dickens
Law, Idiot, Ass
Oliver Twist ch. 51 (1838). See Glapthorne 1

There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

Charles Dickens
Children, Flower, Sky
Charles Dickens (1868). “Old Curiosity Shop”, p.238

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

Charles Dickens
Cheer, Live Life, Fall
Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

Charles Dickens
Smoking, Identity, Cigar

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Names, Magic
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.126

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

Charles Dickens
Strong, Home, Names
Charles Dickens, John Forster (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...: Martin Chugglewit”, p.160

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Charles Dickens
Believe, Long, People
Charles Dickens (1868). “Nicholas Nickleby. Martin Chuzzlewit. American notes”, p.164

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Dickens
Running, Pain, Boys
Charles Dickens (1866). “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.281

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