What I know, I know; and what you know, you know. I have no more to say about it. The Circumlocution Office2021-07-25T13:10:39+01:00Categories: Hard Times| Read More
I never in my life saw anything so remarkable and so captivating as the lighting of those features! The Circumlocution Office2022-02-21T11:08:19+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
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. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-21T11:14:30+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Emotions| Read More
It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-21T11:10:35+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Emotions| Read More
It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it. The Circumlocution Office2022-11-15T23:29:01+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Pollution| Read More
Judging him by Nature’s evidence, he was above the mass in very little but the stage on which he stood. In many great respects he was essentially below them. The Circumlocution Office2021-03-19T09:02:17+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which appeared impervious to the sun’s rays. The Circumlocution Office2020-06-25T19:56:00+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Pollution| Read More
It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own. The Circumlocution Office2021-03-10T21:38:40+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
Several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another. The Circumlocution Office2020-06-26T21:44:32+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown| Read More
The innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in. The Circumlocution Office2021-03-10T21:29:21+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Pollution| Read More
He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means. The Circumlocution Office2021-03-10T21:42:19+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Isolation, Loneliness, Solitude| Read More
He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. The Circumlocution Office2021-03-10T21:40:41+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Isolation, Loneliness, Solitude| Read More
In the name of wonder, idleness, and folly! The Circumlocution Office2019-04-09T19:51:04+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Facts| Read More
Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in mouth. The Circumlocution Office2021-09-27T17:14:51+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Animals, Education, Facts, School, Teaching, Utilitarianism| Read More
Little vessels … ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. The Circumlocution Office2021-09-27T20:26:51+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Children, Education, Facts, School, Utilitarianism| Read More
