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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.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Aims All My Heart Always Been Devoted Earnest Great Heart Life Myself Small Thoroughly Tried Well Whatever

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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Better Had Heart Human Human Heart Strings

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

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Arrangement Attire Great Great Men Men Seldom

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Christmas Heart Honor Keep Try Will Year

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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.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Blows Cold Days Hot Light March Shade Shines Summer Sun Sun Shines Those Wind Winter

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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

Topics: About Any Anything Bad Bad Men Conventional Countenance Day Dishonesty Face Got Honesty Idea Known Looking Men Nonsense Out Quantity Stare Talked Trust Vast Week Will You

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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

Topics: Back Childhood Christmas Days Delusions Happy His Home Man Old Old Man Our Own Pleasures Quiet Recall Transport Traveler Us Win Youth

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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.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Brings Children Existence Felt Injustice Little Nothing Perceived Them Up Which Whosoever World

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Better Done Ever Far Go Known Rest Than Thing

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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Blush Child Childish Distorted Forth Gives Happy Image Man Old Our Own Pride Send State Title Together Ugly

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: February 7th, 1812

Died: June 9th, 1870

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