| You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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| Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. |
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- Charles Dickens |
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