Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

"The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none."
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"The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none."
Charles Dickens
"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine."
Charles Dickens
"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."
Charles Dickens
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest."
Charles Dickens
"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
Charles Dickens
"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."
Charles Dickens
"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Charles Dickens
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."
Charles Dickens
"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."
Charles Dickens
"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
Charles Dickens
"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."
Charles Dickens
"Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas."
Charles Dickens
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
Charles Dickens
"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
Charles Dickens
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
Charles Dickens
"Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby."
Charles Dickens
"The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself."
Charles Dickens
"The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you."
Charles Dickens
"I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen."
Charles Dickens
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