Category: Author Charles Dickens

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse. Charles Dickens Hard…

My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 1 thought Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 1 I. The Period…

Los caminos seguidos por los hombres hacen prever los finales a los que conducen si perseveran en ellos. Pero si se apartan de esos caminos, los finales habrán de cambiar. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 0 It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer…

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child’s heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child’s dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child’s belief or a child’s fear.Mr. Gradgrind was quite…

Marley was dead, to begin with … This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 39 There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from…