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Charles Dickens: A literary man...

Charles Dickens: A literary man...

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

Source: (Mr Boffin on Silas Wegg) Our Mutual...

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Charles Dickens: He's tough, ma'am,...

Charles Dickens: He's tough, ma'am,...

He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!

Source: (Major Bagstock)...

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Charles Dickens: When he has...

Charles Dickens: When he has...

When he has learnt that bottinney means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows 'em. That's our system, Nickleby;...

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Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!

Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers,...

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Charles Dickens: It couldn't exist...

Charles Dickens: It couldn't exist...

It couldn't exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: He had used...

Charles Dickens: He had used...

He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.

Source: (Mr Blotton) Pickwick...

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James Thurber: You might as...

James Thurber: You might as...

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Source:...

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James Thurber: Boys are beyond...

James Thurber: Boys are beyond...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90...

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G K Chesterton: Without education, we...

G K Chesterton: Without education, we...

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people...

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G K Chesterton: Education is the...

G K Chesterton: Education is the...

Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want...

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G K Chesterton: Man is an...

G K Chesterton: Man is an...

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the...

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G K Chesterton: I want to...

G K Chesterton: I want to...

I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the...

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G K Chesterton: It is at...

G K Chesterton: It is at...

It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something...

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G K Chesterton: It is not...

G K Chesterton: It is not...

It is not the man of pleasure who has pleasure; it is not the man of the world who appreciates the world. ... It is...

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G K Chesterton: To be simple...

G K Chesterton: To be simple...

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being...

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G K Chesterton: The traveler sees...

G K Chesterton: The traveler sees...

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: There are no...

G K Chesterton: There are no...

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Source: In Webster's...

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G K Chesterton: There is nothing...

G K Chesterton: There is nothing...

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal...

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G K Chesterton: Women prefer to...

G K Chesterton: Women prefer to...

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Source: In...

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Henry David Thoreau: A man thinks...

Henry David Thoreau: A man thinks...

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Source: In The...

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