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Quotations that are admired for their beauty... or... something


'I was encouraged by nothing, mother, but by looking at the red sparks dropping out of the fire, and whitening and dying.' (57) --Louisa, on the topic of rebellion

'Dear Jack. All up in Coketown. Bored out of the place, and going for camels. Affectionately, JEM.' (229) --Letter from Jack Harthouse, tucking his tail in between his legs and running away after Sissy laid down the law.

"He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been - in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of Heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away - by the fervour of this approach." (225) -- Describing Jack Harthouse, when approached by Sissy

"Some persons hold that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart." (217) -- Mr. Gradgrind when apologizing to Louisa after her outbreak. 

"In the innocence of her brave affection, and the brimming up of her old devoted spirit, the once deserted girl shone like a beautiful light upon the darkness of the other." (220) -- A description of Sissy when she visits Louisa.

"Though the green landscape was blotted here and there with heaps of coal, it was green elsewhere, and there were trees to see, and therewere larks singing (though it was Sunday), and there were pleasant scents in the air, and all was overarched by a bright blue sky." (Dickens 256)