All Charles Dickens Quotes
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
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