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Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens's Popular Quotes

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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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 smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

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

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

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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!

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

- Charles Dickens
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