A Quote by Charles Dickens

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

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