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| The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| 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 | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
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| With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| A loving heart is the truest wisdom. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Lord, keep my memory green. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
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| Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Philosophers are only men in armour after all. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
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| There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| 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 | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| A boy's story is the best that is ever told. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. | Charles Dudley Warner | 1829-1900, American Author |
| It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. | Charles Dudley Warner | 1829-1900, American Author |
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| There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. | Charles Dudley Warner | 1829-1900, American Author |
| Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. | Charles Dudley Warner | 1829-1900, American Author |
| Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. | Charles Dudley Warner | 1829-1900, American Author |
| Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. | Charles Dudley Warner | 1829-1900, American Author |
| The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. | Charles Dudley Warner | 1829-1900, American Author |
| Fellowship with God means warfare with the world. | Charles E. Fuller | |
| We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, ''We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.'' | Charles E. Hummel | |
| You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable. | Charles E. Popplestone | |
| Mistakes are stepping stones to success. | Charles E. Popplestone | |
| Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards. | Charles E. Popplestone | |
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