Dickens

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“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.”
—Eudora Welty (b. 1909)