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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Oliver Twist
― Oliver Twist
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
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“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Our Mutual Friend
― Our Mutual Friend
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
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“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
― Nicholas Nickleby
― Nicholas Nickleby
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
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“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
― A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
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“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
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“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations