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Charles Dickens quotes

1812–1870. English novelist. 7 quotes.

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

Checked against Project Gutenberg eBook #98.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness

Book 1, Chapter 1Source text

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Book 3, Chapter 15Spoken by Sydney Carton · Source text

A Christmas Carol (1843)

Checked against Project Gutenberg eBook #46.

No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!

Stave 1Spoken by the Ghost of Jacob Marley · Source text

God bless us every one!

Stave 3Spoken by Tiny Tim · Source text

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Stave 4Spoken by Ebenezer Scrooge · Source text

David Copperfield (1850)

Checked against Project Gutenberg eBook #766.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Chapter 12Spoken by Mr. Micawber · Source text

Great Expectations (1861)

Checked against Project Gutenberg eBook #1400.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Chapter 6Source text
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