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Charles Dickens quotes

English Novelist, Writer February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

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Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough. Charles Dickens
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me. Charles Dickens
Bless their dear little hearts!" said Mrs. Mann with emotion, "they're as well as can be, the dears! Of course, except the two that died last week. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are..."
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. Charles Dickens
Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you consider that that person is only a crying off from being held accountable, and that you have got that person's number, and it's Number One. Now, I am not a poetical man myself, except in a vocal way, when it goes round a company, but I'm a... Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "The one great principle of English law is to make business for..."
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by. Charles Dickens
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy. Charles Dickens
He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely. Charles Dickens
I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine..."
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. Charles Dickens
When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment. Charles Dickens
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. Charles Dickens

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