The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Source: Sketches by Boz, The Broker's Man (1836)
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British · 1812-1870 · 13 quotes
British · 1812–1870
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Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and, by many measures, of any era in the language. Born in 1812 in Portsmouth to a family that fell into poverty when his father was imprisoned for debt — an experience that scarred him and fueled his lifelong advocacy for the poor — Dickens began his literary career as a journalist and sketch writer. The Pickwick Papers, serialized in 1836-37, made him famous overnight. The novels that followed — Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations — combined comic exuberance with fierce social criticism and an unmatched gift for memorable characters. Dickens was also a tireless public reader and social reformer who campaigned against workhouses, child labor, and the debtors' prison system he had known firsthand. He died in 1870, aged fifty-eight, at his Kent estate.
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.