Complete Works of Charles Dickens

Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Volume 7): Dombey and Son
By Charles Dickens

Excerpt from Chapter I

I MARK so bold as to believe that the faculty (or the habit) of correctly observing the characters of men, is a rare one. I have not even found, within my experience, that the faculty (or the habit) of correctly observing so much as the faces of men, is a general one by any means. The two commonest mistakes in judgment that I suppose to arise from the former default, are, the confounding o...