Francis Dickens

Francis Dickens

Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844 – 11 June 1886) was the third son and fifth child of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens née Hogarth.

Read more about Francis Dickens:  Early Life and Career, The Battle of Fort Pitt, 1885, Discharge and Death, Character Reputation, Francis Dickens in Fiction

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    Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    —St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)

    Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
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