Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
Are there no prisons?
Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.
"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."
... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.
My life is one demd horrid grind.
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.
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