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Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

I've a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind . . . you behave yourself...

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Charles Dickens: If your governor...

Charles Dickens: If your governor...

If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly...

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Charles Dickens: We've got a...

Charles Dickens: We've got a...

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's...

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Charles Dickens: Oh Sairey, Sairey,...

Charles Dickens: Oh Sairey, Sairey,...

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

Source: (Mrs Gamp) Martin...

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Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 23
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Charles Dickens: Man's courses forshadow...

Charles Dickens: Man's courses forshadow...

Man's courses forshadow certain ends; but if these courses be departed from these ends will...

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Charles Dickens: Skewered through and...

Charles Dickens: Skewered through and...

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

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Charles Dickens: Take example by...

Charles Dickens: Take example by...

Take example by your father, my boy, and be wery careful o' vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public...

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Charles Dickens: If the law...

Charles Dickens: If the law...

'If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble . . . , 'the law is a ass - a idiot.'

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George Eliot: We must find...

George Eliot: We must find...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: There is nothing...

Mark Twain: There is nothing...

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they...

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Mark Twain: An ecstasy is...

Mark Twain: An ecstasy is...

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Source: The...

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Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to...

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Mark Twain: Any so-called material...

Mark Twain: Any so-called material...

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content...

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I refute it...

I refute it...

I refute it thus.

Source: Replying to Boswell's contention that they were unable to...

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My dear friend,...

My dear friend,...

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant . . . You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but...

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No degree of...

No degree of...

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly...

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No place affords...

No place affords...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a library.

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The natural flights...

The natural flights...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to...

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The booksellers are...

The booksellers are...

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

Source: Life of Johnson, (J....

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