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Holly berries from Dickens

Chapter 30: Twenty-ninth 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.

Twenty-ninth Day.

Work: don’t make fine playing
speeches about
bread, but earn it.

Ralph Nickleby.

If I do my duty, I do what I ought, and
do no more than all the rest.

Dombey and Son.

Do not strive and struggle to enrich
yourselves or to get the better of each other.

Martin Chuzzlewit.

People accustomed from infancy to lie on
down feathers,
have no idea how hard a paving-stone
is without trying it.

Hard Times.