Charles Dickens Quotes About Literature
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
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It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
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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.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
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I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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We are so very 'umble.
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'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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