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The Cricket on the Hearth
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"The Cricket on the Hearth" Quotes

"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a heartwarming Victorian tale by Charles Dickens that explores themes of love, family, and domestic happiness through the lives of a humble carrier and the magical cricket that watches over his household.

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Tackleton was a worthy tradesman in the city, and a man of great exactitude and honesty in his dealings.

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honestybusiness

The kettle began it!

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beginnings

He was that sort of man, that to have had any lingering or surviving hope of doing that sort of deed himself, would have been instant and sufficient death to him.

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evilcharacter

A cricket sings upon the hearth, a fine, cheerful, home-bred sound; and, though a simple creature, he is of so much use and comfort to my little household gods.

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comforthome

He knew no more about it than the child unborn; but he put his finger on his nose mysteriously, and nodded his head, and seemed to think that he had expressed himself fully.

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mysteryknowledge

He carried the light, and she the darkness.

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contrast

He always had a wonderfully short and sharp answer to everything.

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witintelligence

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

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artperspective

I don't know what the business is, but it's no good, depend upon it.

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suspicionmystery

She feigned to be so, but I don't think she was.

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deceptiondoubt