We part with tender
We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning – yet before us. Charles Dickens
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We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning – yet before us. Charles Dickens
If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, ‘I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!’ your seventy-eight years would be … Read more
She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived. Charles Dickens
Madam, replied Mr. Micawber, it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future. Charles Dickens
All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, – in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter. Charles … Read more
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that … Read more
After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of The Dashing White Sergeant, and Little Tafflin. Charles Dickens
‘There may be some, perhaps – I don’t know that there are – who abuse his kindness,’ said Mr. Wickfield. ‘Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that’s a merit, or whether it’s a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great … Read more
There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain’t for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on ‘umbly, Master Copperfield! Charles Dickens
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. Charles Dickens