But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
Charles Dickens in Oliver TwistSome people are nobody's enemies but their own.
Charles Dickens in Oliver TwistPlease, sir, I want some more.
Charles Dickens in Oliver TwistIt is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
Charles Dickens in Oliver TwistThere are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens in Oliver TwistAmong other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist