Showing posts with label Dickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dickens. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

[I]n a large house, formerly a house of state ... in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

Tuesday, December 24, 2013


Christmas time ... a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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, A Christmas Carol