Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 February 1812
frequently hundred
As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.
affections best however link purest
Our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better
lighthouse man quiet situation took
Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse
burdens useless worth
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
tough
He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!
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Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
blessings man men past present reflect
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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It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!
thee
Can I unmoved see thee dying/ On a log,/ Expiring frog!
furnished hall instructed languages living mr provided youth
At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.
affection cheerful friends-or-friendship great heaven last merry
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
left neglected quite school solitary
The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. ""A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
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Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!
blood liquid regular
I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood