394 ordspråk av Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens föddes den February 7th 1812 och dog den 9 June 1870 - English writer
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 Minerva House... was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

 Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair.

 Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it

 Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.

 Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.

 My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

 Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

 Never sign a Valentine with your own name.

 Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

 No man ever walked down to posterity with so small a book under his arm.

 No man knows till the time comes, what depths are within him. To some men it never comes; let them rest and be thankful! To me, you brought it; on me, you forced it; and the bottom of this raging sea, striking himself upon the breast, "has been heaved up ever since."

 No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

 No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

 No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another

 No one is useless in this world, retorted the Secretary, "who lightens the burden of it for any one else."


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