No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
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Charles DickensOur Mutual Friend (1865)
About Charles Dickens
English novelist, author of David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol. (1812-1870)
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- Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.Our Mutual Friend (1865)
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- 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
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