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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens
Love, Mean, Men
Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.345

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Charles Dickens
Action
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.304

Least said, soonest mended

Charles Dickens
Said
Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.379, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens
Strength, Encouraging, Dark
Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.648, Pan Macmillan

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens
Sorry, Rain, Heart
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens
Love, Honesty, Heart
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.10568, Delphi Classics

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Charles Dickens
Brother, Men, Endurance
Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.169

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens
Words Of Wisdom, Said, Being True
Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)”, p.199, Book House

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Charles Dickens
Grief, Broken, Bones
1836-7 Sketches by Boz,'Gin Shops'.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Money, Guarantees That
Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Charles Dickens
Regret, Opportunity, Space
J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1244, e-artnow

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Dickens
Country, Nature, Easy
Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.178, Kartindo.com

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Dickens
Taken, Two, Expectations
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.255, The Planet

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Charles Dickens
Words Of Wisdom, Gentleman
'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 2, ch. 28 (Rigaud)

For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens
Good Morning, Beauty, Time
Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.207

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens
Love, Christmas, Education
A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

Charles Dickens
Phrases, Fit, Educated
Charles Dickens (2009). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty: Easyread Large Edition”, p.216, ReadHowYouWant.com

Change begets change.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Change, Begets
Charles Dickens (2016). “Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.301, Xist Publishing

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

Charles Dickens
Girl, Hard Times, Animal
Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens
Words Of Wisdom, Classic, Trifles
David Copperfield ch. 53 (1850)

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Dickens
Confidence, Wonder, Evoke
Charles Dickens (1859). “All the Year Round”, p.553

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

Charles Dickens
Exercise, Air, Blue
Charles Dickens (1849). “The Novels and Tales of Charles Dickens, (Boz.).”, p.135

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

Charles Dickens
Sketches by Boz "Tales," ch. 3 (1839)

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

Charles Dickens
Hurt, Complaining, Blades

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens
Art, Pain, Two
Nicholas Nickleby ch. 10 (1839)

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