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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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
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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.
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
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Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
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In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.
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Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
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My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
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Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.