“If he has no home, he learns the same lesson unselfishly by turning to…” — Charles Dickens | V2Melody

“If he has no home, he learns the same lesson unselfishly by turning to the homes of other men.”

Extending the idea of home into sympathy with the lives of others · Speech, London, 30 December 1854

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About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

7 February 1812–9 June 1870

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in a modest terraced house at 1 Mile End Terrace in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The second of eight children born to John and Elizabeth Dickens, his arrival came during a time of naval activity and modest aspirations in a bustling port town. His…

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“I feel as if I stood amongst old friends, whom I had intimately known and highly valued.”

Expressing the intimacy Dickens felt with readers who had shared his imagined world · Speech, Edinburgh, 25 June 1841

“I have learned, I hope, from the art we both profess (if you will forgive this classification of myself with you) to respect a man of genius in his mistakes, no less than in his triumphs.”

Extending respect for artistic genius to failure as well as success · Letter to James Sheridan Knowles, 26 May 1847

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“Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”

Suggesting that absence can deepen appreciation of home · Speech, London, 30 December 1854

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