"I have heard Dickens described by those who knew him as aggressive, imperious, and intolerant, and I can comprehend the accusation; but to me his temper was always of the sweetest and kindest. He would, I doubt not, have been easily bored, and would not have scrupled to show it; but he never ran the risk. He was imperious in the sense that his life was conducted on the sic vole sic jubeo principle, and that everything gave way before him."
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Edmund Yates
(3 July 1831 – 20 May 1894) was a British journalist, novelist, playwright, editor, lecturer, and publicist. Yates, a close friend of Charles Dickens, was involved in a .
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