English - Novelist | February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
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We are so very 'umble.
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
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There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
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'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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