Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who spo… - Charles Dickens

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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

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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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Birth Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens

Alternative Names: Dickens • Boz • C. Dickens

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