Tag: Charles Dickens
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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.
Charles Dickens
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens