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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
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.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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... (more Charles Dickens quotes)
His last child was born in 1852, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens. Dickens named his seventh son after his friend, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who served as the child's godfather. Bulwer-Lytton was a politician and novelist, though not nearly as respected as Dickens is today. The first line of his novel Paul Clifford contains the oft-mocked line "It was a dark and stormy night."
When he was five, his family moved to Chatham, in Kent county in southeastern England.
His parents were John Dickens and Eliza... (more Charles Dickens trivia)
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The Charles Dickens Collection (Oliver Twist / Martin Chuzzlewit / Bleak House / Hard Times / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend) ~ Ben Rodska, Scott Funnell, Eric Porter, and Frank Middlemass |
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The Charles Dickens Collection, Vol. 2 (David Copperfield / The Pickwick Papers / The Old Curiosity Shop / Dombey and Son) ~ Colin Douglas, John Woodnutt, Phil Daniels, and Howard Lang (II) |
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens ~ Simon Callow |
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Charles Dickens Collection (David Copperfield / Oliver Twist / Great Expectations) ~ Emilia Fox, Pauline Quirke, Maggie Smith, and John Normington |
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Charles Dickens: The Man Who Asked for More ~ Charles Dickens |
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