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

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Business First Men Other Rule Would You

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

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Backs Best Books Covers Far Parts Which

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Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Bliss Could Felt First First Love Hood If I Could Known Little Love Married Perfect Red Riding Should

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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

Topics: Activities Business Concerned Far Fraction Individuals Longer Men Most Units

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

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Business English Great Itself Law Make Principle

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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Bottled Bring Clean Lightning

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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Answer Baby Born Complete Contend Every Finer Gradual Human Human Species Last Pleasant Pleasant Thing Reflect Species Than Thing Those Who World

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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Eye Favor Had He Pocket Prejudice Runs Two

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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.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Accompanied Change General Half Head Pity Sigh Slight Small Society Sort Three Two Which

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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.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Any Credit Dressed Good He Man May Much Spirits Temper Well

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: February 7th, 1812

Died: June 9th, 1870

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