The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. – Charles Dickens
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. – Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. – Charles Dickens
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. – Charles Dickens
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. – Charles Dickens
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. – Charles Dickens