7 Charles Dickens Quotes on Wisdom

Charles Dickens quotes on wisdom

21. Ven you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter of taste.

65. 'Regrets,' said Martin, 'are the natural property of grey hairs; and I enjoy, in common with all other men, at least my share of such inheritance.'

69. Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it.

73. I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

88. A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom:

92. Let sleeping dogs lie - who wants to rouse 'em?

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111. There is a wisdom of the Head, and ... there is a wisdom of the Heart.