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
aged object
You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?
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These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.
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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.
tough
He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
life
In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts.
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I positively adore Miss Dombey; - I-I am perfectly sore with loving her.
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I love little children, and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us
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In company with several other old ladies of both sexes.
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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 pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.
fine point
Not to put too fine a point upon it.