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“In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.”
“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the authors sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting pleasure in cruelty and suffering, while the ...”
“I like Mr. Dickens books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackerays daughters.”
“A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and ...”
“My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.”
“They cannot indulge in any detailed or merely logical defense of life; that would delay the enjoyment of it. These higher optimists, of whom Dickens was one, do not approve of the universe; they do...”
“When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a blessed sense of rest!”
“And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to...”
“Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little Red Riding-Hood comes to me one Christmas Eve ...”
“Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!”
“To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.”
“He very soon acquired the reputation of being the best public speaker of his time. He had taken pains to master the art, approaching it with scientific precision. On the morning of a day on which h...”
“I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.”
