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Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

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2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

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Charles Dickens' father was a clerk at the Naval Pay Office, and because of this the family had to move from place to place: Plymouth, London, Chatham. It was a large family and despite hard work, his father couldn't earn enough money. In 1823 he was arrested for debt and Charles had to start working in a factory, labeling bottles for six shillings a week. The economy eventually improved and Charles was able to go back to school. After leaving school, he started to work in a solicitor's office. He learned shorthand and started as a reporter working for the Morning Chronicle in courts of law and the House of Commons. In 1836 his first novel was published, "The Pickwick Papers". It was a success and was followed by more novels: "Oliver Twist" (1837), "Nicholas Nickleby" (1838-39) and "Barnaby Rudge" (1841). He traveled to America later that year and aroused the hostility of the American press by supporting the abolitionist (anti-slavery) movement. In 1858 he divorced his wife Catherine, who had borne him ten children. During the 1840s his social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage: novels like "David Copperfield" (1849-50), "A Tale of Two Cities" (1959) and "Great Expectations" (1860-61) only increased his fame and respect. His last novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was never completed and was later published posthumously.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he&#39;s well dressed.
There ain&#39;t much credit in that.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is
constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which of all men have some.

[on babies] Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

[on choice] We forge the chains we wear in life.

The life of almost any man possessing great gifts would be a sad book to himself.

[on Niagara Falls] It would be hard for a man to stand nearer to God than he does here.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have poor relations.

[last words, spoken to his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth, when she recommended he lie down] On the ground?

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Charles Dickens

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