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Holly berries from Dickens

Chapter 20: Nineteenth 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.

Nineteenth Day.

It is the duty of a man to be just
before he is generous.
Martin Chuzzlewit.
It is difficult to offer aid to an independent
man.

Barnaby Rudge.

Go in and win—an admirable thing to recommend
if you only know how to do it.

Pickwick.

Dishonesty will stare honesty out of
countenance any day in the week, if there is
anything to be got by it.

Hunted Down.

The world is prone to misconstruction.

Dombey and Son.