In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value
Charles DickensTag: charles-dickens a-christmas-carol
There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited
Charles DickensTag: charles-dickens a-christmas-carol
May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the children of not exactly suitable marriages are always most particularly anxious to be married?
Charles DickensThat it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignity and rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest health, and become developed in the most unlikely constitutions; is a fact as firmly established by experience
Charles Dickenswith a most intent and searching gaze
Charles DickensShe watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch of dread or horror.
Charles DickensMay you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens[...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'
'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.
Tag: money wise-words selling-soul
[...] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.
Charles DickensTag: excess mind wise-words state-of-mind
Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or some little admonition of that sort, than he did of any other ordinary duty of life; and he would further remark, with looks of great significance, that but for this judicious bringing up, he might have never been the man he was at that present speaking; which was probable enough, as he was, beyond all question, the dullest dog of the party.
Charles DickensTag: parenting upbringing admonishing
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