It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. Charles Dickens
I had merely announced to her my intention of keeping a man-servant, when she fell into the extraordinary paroxysm in which you found her. Very extraordinary thing. Charles Dickens
Don't you read or get read to? The old man shakes his head with sharp sly triumph. No, no. We have never been readers in our family. It don't pay. Stuff. Idleness. Folly. No, no! Charles Dickens