Charles Dickens Quotes

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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• I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Desire
  • Stock
  • Cheerfulness