Tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
Ah, no!
Stichwörter: a-christmas-carol
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Charles DickensSince I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
Charles DickensStichwörter: dreams
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Tan grande es la fuerza de la costumbre, y tan deseable que las costumbres desde el principio sean buenas.
Charles Dickens[John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place
Charles DickensStichwörter: consternation duress wild-hair
Era el mejor de los tiempos y era el peor de los tiempos; la edad de la sabiduría y también de la locura; la época de las creencias y de la incredulidad; la era de la luz y de las tinieblas; la primavera de la esperanza y el invierno de la desesperación. Todo lo poseíamos, pero nada teníamos; íbamos directamente al cielo y nos extraviábamos en el camino opuesto. En una palabra, aquella época era tan parecida a la actual, que nuestras más notables autoridades insisten en que, tanto en lo que se refiere al bien como al mal, sólo es aceptable la comparación en grado superlativo.
Charles Dickensand it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
Charles DickensYou talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?
Charles DickensWe must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.
Charles DickensStichwörter: humbug
[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
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