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Portrait of Charles Dickens is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise, from 1839. It is a depiction of the English novelist Charles Dickens, still in his youth. Dickens's debut novel The Pickwick Papers had been a popular success, which he had followed up with Nicholas Nickleby. He was around twenty-seven when he sat for the painting, which is sometimes known as Young Dickens.
“Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.”
“I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on.”
“That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.”
“"Time was," he said, "when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light."”
“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
“'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'”
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