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Thinker · 5 quotes
5 sourced quotes by Charles Dickens on integrity & honesty, compassion & empathy, governance & administration, equality & social justice, emotions & self-control, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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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.
'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving — HOW NOT TO DO IT.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.