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Danh ngôn của Charles Dickens (Sứ mệnh: 5)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.