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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It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples
almost knows man subject tiresome
The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.
london particular
This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.
christmas happy merry year
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself
best club
I think . . . that it is the best club in London.
christmas honor
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.
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It's nothing, returned Mrs Chick. ""It's merely change of weather. We must expect change.
taxes true truer
It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
bless bob christmas family god last merry tiny
Then Bob proposed: 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
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It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.
against besides dry fancy frequently ground mine palms squeeze
It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for he frequently ground the palms against each other as if to squeeze them dry and warm, besides often wiping them, in a stealthy way, on his pocket-handkerchief
came ecstasy magic pint
It came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
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His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!