Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from December to March, inclusive, she is to be found in the bare ruin of her winter, as truly beautiful as in the full bloom of summer.
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"I am not a believer in the perfectibility of human nature."
"I have a strong objection to the present system of transportation, as a punishment."
"The sun himself has never looked upon anything so ridiculous as this."
"The Radicals are a set of men who would pull down everything, and build up nothing."
"I think that the best thing a man can do is to try to make the best of everything."
English novelist whose Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), and Bleak House (1852) made Victorian poverty inescapable for the British middle class. Closely associated with William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair rival and contemporary serial novelist) and George Eliot (later Victorian giant who built on Dickens's social-realism foundation). For an intellectual contrast, see Jeremy Bentham, founder of utilitarianism (1748-1832) — Mr. Gradgrind in Hard Times (1854) is a direct caricature of Bentham-style social calculation — 'Facts, sir, nothing but Facts!' is the most-cited literary attack on utilitarianism's reduction of human life to measurable units. Dickens's serialized social-novel form is itself a rebuke of utilitarian abstraction.
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