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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Quote by Charles Dickens about wisdom, heart

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 got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able...

Quote by Charles Dickens about man, people

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Quote by Charles Dickens about secret, human imperfections

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before...

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Quote by Charles Dickens about idea

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.

Quote by Charles Dickens about happiness

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's...

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Quote by Charles Dickens about good, good luck, man

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took...

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Quote by Charles Dickens about man, life

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

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

Quote by Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent...

Quote by Charles Dickens about time, christmas, thinking, man, good, good luck

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been...

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Quote by Charles Dickens

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement...

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Quote by Charles Dickens about man

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Quote by Charles Darwin about happiness, christmas, childhood, quiet, youth, day, home, old, olderness, man

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never...

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

Quote by Charles Dickens about heart

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in...

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Quote by Charles Dickens about prejudice

He would make a lovely corpse.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Quote by Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than...

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Quote by Charles Dickens about name, word, home, spirit

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.

Quote by Charles Dickens about honesty, idea, bad luck, bad, man, day, contentment, face

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.

Quote by Charles Dickens about punctuality, habits, determination, order, time

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Quote by Charles Dickens

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it...

Quote by Charles Dickens about drinking, husband, magic, memory, things, man

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