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How, then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about people, sealed as they were? Only like a bee, drawn by some sweetness or sharpness in the air intangible to touch or taste, one haunted the dome-shaped hive, ranged the wastes of the air over the countries of the world alone, and then haunted the hives with their murmurs and their stirrings; the hives which were people.
- Virginia Woolf
Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?
- Virginia Woolf
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
- Laurence Sterne
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
- Charles Dickens
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
- Charles Dickens
God bless us, every one!
- Charles Dickens
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
- Charles Dickens
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
- Charles Dickens
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
- Charles Dickens
You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?
- Charles Dickens