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Holly berries from Dickens

Chapter 13: Twelfth Day.
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A curated sequence of short aphorisms and brief extracts drawn from the novelist's writings, arranged as daily readings labeled by day. Each entry presents pithy moral observations, practical maxims, and character sketches on virtues, friendship, duty, hope, and human foibles, often with the original work or character noted. The selections act as compact reflections suited to daily contemplation, blending wit, moral instruction, and worldly advice into concise standalone lines that together form a thematic sampler of recurring ethical concerns.

Twelfth Day.

We should all try to discharge
our duty.

Pickwick Papers.

Unless we learn to do our duty to those
in our employ, they
will never learn to do their duty to us.

David Copperfield.

Simplicity and plainness are the soul
of elegance.

Old Curiosity Shop.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its
lights are stronger in contrast.

Pickwick Papers.

There is always something to be thankful for.

Little Dorrit.