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
meant men
What is meant by a "knowledge of the world" is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men
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I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
bless christmas god good hearts men open pleasant seem time women
I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!
english-novelist man men past present reflect
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
blessings man men past present reflect
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
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There is no limitation, there is positively no limitation' - opening his eyes wide, and standing on tiptoe - 'in point of expense! I have orders, sir, to put on my whole establishment of mutes; and mutes come very dear, Mr Pecksniff; not to mention t
opportunity men may
Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
men pockets december
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
men improvement improving
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
men innocent-man may
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
christmas men feelings
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.
war men long
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
love sacrifice men
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
fashion men literature
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.