They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. – Charles Dickens
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. – Charles Dickens
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those dark, clustered houses encloses it – Charles Dickens
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. – Charles Dickens