English - Novelist | February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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