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From "The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete" by Forster, John
John Dickens
Charles Dickens's father, a clerk in the Navy-pay office.
Core Belief
"Family is important, but lacks the practical skill to provide for them."
Worldview
Optimistic and somewhat unrealistic, often failing to grasp the consequences of his actions.
Personality
Kind-hearted and generous, but also improvident and lacking in practical sense.
In Their Own Words
"If you were to be very persevering and were to work hard, you might some day come to live in it."
"I really believed at the time that they had broken my heart."
"Take warning by the Marshalsea, and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a year and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy; but that a shilling spent the other way would make him wretched."
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