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
cause cheer comfort displaced idol matters time tried
It matters little, she said, softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.
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It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!
taxes true truer
It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
left neglected quite school solitary
The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. ""A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
frequently hundred
As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.
bearing outward
A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a monster.
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A bill, by the bye, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.
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It's nothing, returned Mrs Chick. ""It's merely change of weather. We must expect change.
although road thee time
Although it's a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops.
cuts head says wrong
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, when they cuts the wrong man's head off
meeting
It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk.
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Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
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The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are closed upon the past from this hour. I forgive you your part in to-morrow's wickedness. May God forgive my own!
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There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...