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
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In this way they went on, and on, and on--in the language of the story-books--until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.
life
In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts.
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In keeping the world of Charles Dickens alive, ... what I do on the stage is one thing. It's afterward that's the most special. I love to talk about Charles Dickens and hear about people's questions, or their memories of a special time or a family tradition of listening to 'A Christmas Carol.'
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I know quite enough of myself, said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, ""and I don't improve upon acquaintance . . .
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C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of the book, he goes and does it.
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Can I unmoved see thee dying/ On a log,/ Expiring frog!
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I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.
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I positively adore Miss Dombey; - I-I am perfectly sore with loving her.
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In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.
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If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
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He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!
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I love little children, and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us