Quote #136

'And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud.'

More from Charles Dickens

  1. I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx.
  2. That's the state to live and die in!...R-r-rich!
  3. I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.
  4. We must scrunch or be scrunched.
  5. Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
  6. 'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
  7. Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
  8. A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

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