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“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well.”
― Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
― Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
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“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
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“Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again. "And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.”
― Roughing It
― Roughing It
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