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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens
Book, Reading, Writing
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens
Funny, Christmas, Xmas
"The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens
Country, Night, Men
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.3414, e-artnow

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Charles Dickens
Long, Wit, Long Time
Charles Dickens, Jill Kriegel (2010). “Great Expectations: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism”, p.173, Ignatius Press

You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Boys, Clouds
Great Expectations ch. 44 (1861)

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens
Life, Flower, Heart
Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Heart, Cities
'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

Charles Dickens
Oysters, Together, Poverty
'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 22 (Sam Weller)

Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

Charles Dickens
Nature, Rain, Doors
Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities (Falcon Classics) [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 24]”, p.232, Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens
Vices, Excess, Literature
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens”, p.835, Cosimo, Inc.

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

Charles Dickens
Passion, Pride, Names
Charles Dickens (1995). “Christmas Books”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Dickens
Pride, Sickness, Breaking Down

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens
Papa, Literature, Potatoes
Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Charles Dickens
Bricks, Honest, Trade
Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

Charles Dickens
Romantic, Marriage, Wedding
Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.490

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens
Romantic Love, Expectations, Promise
1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.29.

... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

Charles Dickens
Loss, Men, Long
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Dickens
Men, Judging, World
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1736, Delphi Classics

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Charles Dickens
Inspiring, New Year, Heart
Charles Dickens (2004). “The Chimes (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.31, Sparklesoup LLC

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Dickens
Book, Fall, Beer
Barnaby Rudge Ch. 7

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens
Love, Dream, Mean

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens
Love, Powerful, Disappointment
Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.392

Lord, keep my memory green.

Charles Dickens
Memories, Words Of Wisdom, Green
Charles Dickens (1997). “Best Ghost Stories”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

Charles Dickens
Love, Giving Up, Real
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.198, The Planet

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens
Summer, Nature, Spring
Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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