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A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance.

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.

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A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Charles Dickens
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