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The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens
Children, Believe, Streets
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4580, Delphi Classics

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens
Believe, Scrooge, Hallucinations

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

Charles Dickens
Men, People, Scrooge
Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.22, Penguin

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

Charles Dickens
Men, Pockets, December

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

Charles Dickens
Opportunity, Men, May
Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge”, p.129, Tyché

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Charles Dickens
Eye, Thoughtful, Great Expectations
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.149

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

Charles Dickens
Time, Twenties, Littles
1855-7 Mr Meagles. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.16.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

Charles Dickens
Time, Secret Places, Hands
Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of the kids. Perhaps the best Yuletide decorations are to be wreathed in smiles and wrapped in hugs. The miracle of Christmas is that a baby can be so decisive. It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Baby, Children

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

Charles Dickens
Life, Holiday, Mind
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Peace, War
Charles Dickens (1867). “Bleak House”, p.150

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

Charles Dickens
Happiness, Blessed, Home
Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.86

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

Charles Dickens
Dog, Attitude, Philosophy
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].”

If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Home, Humble
Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Charles Dickens
Atheist, Believe, Mean

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

Charles Dickens
Coffee, Fire, Cooking

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Charles Dickens
Strong, Beer, Boys
Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.133

Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

Charles Dickens
Sarcastic, Thinking, People
Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.6762, e-artnow

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

Charles Dickens
Mother, Abode, Wells
1849-50 Uriah Heep. David Copperfield, ch.16.

Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.

Charles Dickens
Reading, Believe, Writing
"David Copperfield". Volume I,

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Charles Dickens
Wine, Voice, Broken
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.63

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

Charles Dickens
Character, Discovery, Would Be
Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.59

One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.

Charles Dickens
Men, Idols, America

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Charles Dickens
Discovery, Heaven, Mystery
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.198

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Spring, Dark
Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.228

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