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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: Ain't I volatile?...

Charles Dickens: Ain't I volatile?...

Ain't I volatile?

Source: (Miss Mowcher) David Copperfield, Ch. 22
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Charles Dickens: I am a...

Charles Dickens: I am a...

I am a demd villain! . . . I will fill my pockets with change for a sovereign in half-pence and drown myself in the...

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Charles Dickens: Experientia does it...

Charles Dickens: Experientia does it...

Experientia does it - as papa used to say.

Source: (Mrs Micawber) David...

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Charles Dickens: She is come...

Charles Dickens: She is come...

She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters!

Source: (The Gentleman...

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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: God bless us...

Charles Dickens: God bless us...

'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Source: A Christmas...

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Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and...

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E M Forster: Works of art,...

E M Forster: Works of art,...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why,...

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Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of...

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Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...

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Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

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John Fowles: An answer is...

John Fowles: An answer is...

An answer is always a form of death.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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John Fowles: Duty largely consists...

John Fowles: Duty largely consists...

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Source: The...

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John Fowles: In essence the...

John Fowles: In essence the...

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

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Thomas Wolfe: The notion that...

Thomas Wolfe: The notion that...

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed...

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Jane Austen: A woman especially,...

Jane Austen: A woman especially,...

A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she...

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Jane Austen: An annuity is...

Jane Austen: An annuity is...

An annuity is a very serious business.

Source: (Mrs Dashwood) Sense and...

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Jane Austen: For what do...

Jane Austen: For what do...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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