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Famous Charles Dickens Quotes
Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
“Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
Source: David Copperfield
Source: Great Expectations
“A word in earnest is as good as a speech.”
Source: Novels
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
Source: A Christmas Carol
Source: British Classics: Great Expectations
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
“The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.”
Source: Bleak House
“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, Vol. I
“In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop
Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens
Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
Source: Dombey and Son
Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
Source: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY
Source: Best Ghost Stories
“Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.”