Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it… - Charles Dickens

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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

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Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Charles Dickens was trying to ban workhouses his whole career.

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Pen Names: بوز

Birth Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens

Alternative Names: Dickens • Boz • C. Dickens

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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. - Charles Dickens

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