A Quote by Charles Dickens

We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

Charles Dickens

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Ancient Burnt Came Chimneys Dogs Full Great Grim Hearth House Legends Lower Old Old House Portraits Some Them Too Walls Wood

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

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My life could have been so grim really, really grim.