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Charles Dickens quotes

1812–1870 · English novelist

Dickens published his novels in monthly instalments and was the most popular writer of the Victorian age.

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3 quotes traced to Charles Dickens's own work or a reliable witness.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Source: A Tale of Two Cities, opening line (1859)

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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.

Source: David Copperfield, ch. 12 (1850) — Mr Micawber

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

Source: Our Mutual Friend, Book 3, ch. 6 (1865)