Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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Charles DickensSketches by Boz (1836), A Christmas Dinner
About Charles Dickens
English novelist, author of David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol. (1812-1870)
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