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Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7, 1812.
He was a prolific writer and social critic, and his works are considered classics of English literature.
Some of his most famous novels include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities.
Dickens was a master of character development and social commentary, and his work often explored the themes of poverty, class inequality, and social injustice.
He died in Kent, England on June 9, 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

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Dickens

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.

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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

Charles Dickens

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

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What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Charles Dickens

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

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And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

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