Charles Dickens Quotes

  Charles Dickens was a great English writer - 

he lived between 1812 and 1870.

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You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human human boy!...O running stream of sparkling joy
To be a soaring human boy!

~ Bleak House

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

~ Bleak House

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice

~ Great Expectations

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"If the law supposes that," said Mr Bumble...
"the law is a ass - a idiot"

~ Oliver Twist

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There is a wisdom of the Head, and ... there is a wisdom of the Heart.

~ Hard Times

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

~ Great Expectations

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else

~ Our Mutual Friend

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I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the dolls house

~ Our Mutual Friend

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way

~ A Tale of Two Cities

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Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.

~ The Old Curiosity Shop

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

~ Barnaby Rudge

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