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“Besides, the children of the poor know but few pleasures. Even the cheap delights of childhood must be bought and paid for.” (The Old Curiosity Shop Quotes)
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!”
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“How many a life has been shaken and changed by the whisperings of a little wind!”
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“Such is the difference between yesterday and today. We are all going to the play, or coming home from it.”
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven.” (The Old Curiosity Shop Quotes)
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“There is something about a presence of little children, which awakens thoughts of angels in the minds of men.”
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
“Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.”
Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
