Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
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One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave.
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Birth: | 7th February, 1812 |
Death: | 9th June, 1870 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Critic, Novelist, Playwright, Writer |
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, England. He was an English social critic, novelist, playwright and writer. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Dickens published more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books.
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