Jim Dodd

“it can give him a handsome tomb; it can give him a place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a purchase.”
― Charles Dickens, The Complete Works of Charles Dickens

“Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth, or rather—for walking implies, at least, an erect position and the bearing of a man—that ever crawled and crept through life by its dirtiest and narrowest ways, will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with Heaven,”
― Charles Dickens, The Complete Works of Charles Dickens

“cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”
― Charles Dickens, The Complete Works of Charles Dickens

“you want to know the future you have to know what has already taken place. The past is everywhere in us.”
― Iain Pears, Arcadia