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Quotes by Charles Dickens
- That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
- The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
- The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
- The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
- The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
- The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
- There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
- There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
- There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
- There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
- To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
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