English - Novelist | February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
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He would make a lovely corpse.
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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