English - Novelist | February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
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You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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