Dickens

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“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.”
—Eudora Welty (b. 1909)

“Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)