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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I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
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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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United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet and Punctual Delivery Company.
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There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish; The thing is to do as much as you can in the time that you have
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There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears, said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones.
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Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving- how not to do it.
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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.
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Walter, she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive.
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When they were all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snap-dragon, and when fingers enough were burned with that, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing lags to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary wash-house copper, in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look, and a jolly sound, that were perfectly irresistible.
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. . . when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.