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Coming of age story37 quotes
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. — Charles Dickens · 1860I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott · 1868In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. — Charles Dickens · 1860There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. — Henry Fielding · 1749I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. — Charles Dickens · 1861All 37 quotes →Picaresque1 quote
There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. — Henry Fielding · 1749