“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
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Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reas...”
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“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in c...”
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“I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verse...”
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“That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.”
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“Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.”
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“It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”
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“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have alwa...”
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“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.”
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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
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“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
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“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
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“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recu...”
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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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“It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer...”
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“'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.”
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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...”
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“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
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“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...”
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“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
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