Quote #70
But charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
More from Charles Dickens
- Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it.
- Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
- Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
- 'Bah!' said Scrooge, 'Humbug!'
- Here's the rule for bargains - 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.
- I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.
- Keep up appearances whatever you do.
- 'Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.' 'Come, then,' returned the nephew…