Charles Dickens

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."	Art, Honesty, Knowledge
"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks."	Age, Beauty, Excellence
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."	Age, Change, Darkness
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."	Art
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur'."	Men
"It was a turkey! He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird! He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax."	Miscellaneous
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Somehow he [Tim] gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see."	Age, Hope, Memory
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."	Evil, Men
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year."	Art, Glory, Honor
"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."	Freedom, Liberty, Lies
"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all."	Prayer
"Train a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."	Wisdom
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!"	Christmas
"I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."	Christmas
"Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes."	Age
"The law is [sic] a ass - a idiot."	Government
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