“I have learned, I hope, from the art we both profess (if you will…” — Charles Dickens

“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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About 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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