All Charles Dickens Quotes
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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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!
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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
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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 to do a walking-match.
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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
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