Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Mots clés blessings reflection gratefulness misfortunes

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every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Charles Dickens

Mots clés humor

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Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

Charles Dickens

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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Charles Dickens

Mots clés good-and-evil

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

Mots clés books writing

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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Mots clés literature

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[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

Mots clés money debt credit

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Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Charles Dickens

Mots clés homecoming

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We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.

Charles Dickens

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With that, she pounced upon me, like an eagle on a lamb, and my face was squeezed into wooden bowls in sinks, and my head was put under taps of water-butts, and I was soaped, and kneaded, and towelled, and thumped, and harrowed, and rasped, until I really was quite beside myself. (I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.)

Charles Dickens

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