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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Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
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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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The business of the law is to increase the business of the law
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In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.
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The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. ""A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
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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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A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
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Educating the natives of Borrioboola-Gha, on the left bank of the Niger.
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Drink with me, my dear, said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy.
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Far better hang wrong fler than no fler.