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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.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Sketches by Boz (1836), Characters, Ch. 2: A Christmas Dinner
- Advice
- Happiness
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Christmas
- Happiness
His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Happiness
- Laughter
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 12In context
- Happiness
- Money

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