No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
Our Mutual Friend (1865)
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Charles Dickens quotes
1812-1870 · Writers and poets
English novelist, author of David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.
4 quotes, 4 traced to where Dickens said or wrote them.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Our Mutual Friend (1865)
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Sketches by Boz (1836), A Christmas Dinner
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.
David Copperfield (1850), spoken by Mr. Micawber