It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
CHARLES DICKENSA word in earnest is as good as a speech.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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A new heart for a New Year, always!
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
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Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.
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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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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
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Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas.
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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.
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Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
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