Quotes from authors born in 1812
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens
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