3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
