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Charles Dickens

1812-1870 ,  British writer
Charles DickensEnglish novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist.
Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author.

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Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but –I hope– into a better shape.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together…

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

(A Tale of Two Cities)


It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we‘d give blood.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will.” Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

A multitude of people and yet a solitude.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me


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