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Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

-Charles Dickens

age

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

-Charles Dickens

best

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

-Charles Dickens

best

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

-Charles Dickens

best

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

-Charles Dickens

business

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

-Charles Dickens

business

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

-Charles Dickens

business

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

-Charles Dickens

change

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

-Charles Dickens

communication

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

-Charles Dickens

friendship

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

-Charles Dickens

good

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

-Charles Dickens

good

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

-Charles Dickens

good

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

-Charles Dickens

great

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

-Charles Dickens

great

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

-Charles Dickens

great

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

-Charles Dickens

great

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

-Charles Dickens

home

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

-Charles Dickens

home

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

-Charles Dickens

home

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

-Charles Dickens

love

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

-Charles Dickens

men

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

-Charles Dickens

men

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

-Charles Dickens

men

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.

-Charles Dickens

men

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

-Charles Dickens

men

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

-Charles Dickens

men

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

-Charles Dickens

men

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

-Charles Dickens

money

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

-Charles Dickens

morning

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

-Charles Dickens

nature

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

-Charles Dickens

nature

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

-Charles Dickens

nature

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

-Charles Dickens

society

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

-Charles Dickens

strength

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

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