My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
Interpretation
Crime can affect individuals of any age or appearance, not just the old or downtrodden.
In this quote, Charles Dickens emphasizes that crime does not discriminate by age or beauty; even the young and innocent can fall victim to it. This insight challenges assumptions about vulnerability and suggests that moral decline can reach anyone, highlighting the pervasive nature of societal issues.
In practice
In a discussion about youth crime rates.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.
The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent
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