My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!
How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!
Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.
From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay’s way the way of the love of a woman.
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
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Lord, keep my memory green.
There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.
Have a heart that never hardens.
It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
Tongue; well that’s a wery good thing when it an’t a woman.
But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.
You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.