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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Charles Dickens
Regret, Hair, Age
Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.183, Booklassic

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens
Feelings, Age, Faces
Charles Dickens (1863). “David Copperfield”, p.190

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Dickens
Age, Matter, Fairytale
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.15543, Delphi Classics

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Dickens
Age, Way, Young
Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.198

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

Charles Dickens
Class, Safety, Age
"Life, Letters, and Speeches of Charles Dickens".

We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

Charles Dickens
Book, Law, Age
"The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

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