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When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

Charles Dickens
Spring, Water, Flow

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Charles Dickens
Water, Listening, May

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

Charles Dickens
Strong, Water, Pieces
Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Charles Dickens
Men, Water, House
Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1974). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate editors: W.J. Carlton [and others]”

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Dickens
Past, People, Water
David Copperfield ch. 30 (1850)

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