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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. "

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" May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? "

Charles Dickens

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Rise

People

" 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. "

" The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. "

" There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. "

" It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. "

" He would make a lovely corpse. "

" A boy's story is the best that is ever told. "

" It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. "

" Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. "

" We forge the chains we wear in life. "

" I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond. "

Charles Dickens

Life

My Life

" Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. "

" The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. "

" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "

" 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

Better

Rest

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

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

" We are so very 'umble. "

Charles Dickens

Very

" Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! "

" This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. "

Charles Dickens

World

Action

" A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. "

" You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. "

" 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. "

" Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. "

" The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. "

" Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. "