Quotes on history

history of this quote “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” by Charles Dickens

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history of this quote “All partings foreshadow the great final one.” by Charles Dickens

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history of this quote “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” by Charles Dickens

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history of this quote “As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.” by Charles Dickens

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“Please, sir, I want some more.”

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“I wear the chain I forged in life.”

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

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“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”

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“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”

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“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”

Charles Dickens
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