Charles Dickens Quotes

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Dickens

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• Human Nature
• Despise

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• I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

  

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• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

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• Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

  

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• John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

  

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• Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Judge
  • Human Nature
  • Despise