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Charles Dickens

English novelist and social critic

1812–1870

60 quotes, most often on Christmas, Life & Death and Love. Part of the Writers collection.

If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Charity
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Business
- Charity
Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
- Life & Death
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
- Education

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