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I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens's Popular Quotes

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

- Charles Dickens

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

- Charles Dickens

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

- Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

- Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

- Charles Dickens

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

- Charles Dickens

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

- Charles Dickens
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