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Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.”
“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”
“Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.”
“Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.”
“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”
“But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.”
“In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up”
“Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.”
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