" 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, A Tale of Two Cities English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. "

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. "

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" It is a 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, A Tale Of Two Cities English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. "

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

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

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. "

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together. "

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. "

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849 English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! "

Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. "

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. "

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. "

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before… it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before. "

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities English novelist (1812 – 1870)

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