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Charles Dickens: At Mr Wackford...

Charles Dickens: At Mr Wackford...

At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with...

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Charles Dickens: There are only...

Charles Dickens: There are only...

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: It was the...

Charles Dickens: It was the...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it...

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Charles Dickens: An observer of...

Charles Dickens: An observer of...

'An observer of human nature, sir,' said Mr Pickwick.

Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: It's my opinion,...

Charles Dickens: It's my opinion,...

It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk.

Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: Put it down...

Charles Dickens: Put it down...

Put it down a we, my lord, put it down a we!

Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch. 34
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Charles Dickens: Charity begins at...

Charles Dickens: Charity begins at...

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Source: Tigg, in Martin...

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Charles Dickens: Eccentricities of genius....

Charles Dickens: Eccentricities of genius....

Eccentricities of genius.

Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch. 30
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Charles Dickens: It is a...

Charles Dickens: It is a...

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have...

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George Eliot: In spite of...

George Eliot: In spite of...

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and...

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George Eliot: Our passions do...

George Eliot: Our passions do...

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions...

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George Eliot: Among all forms...

George Eliot: Among all forms...

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Source: Middlemarch,...

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George Eliot: There are some...

George Eliot: There are some...

There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them...

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George Eliot: She was no...

George Eliot: She was no...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in...

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George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Source: 'Felix...

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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Edward Dahlberg: The newspaper has...

Edward Dahlberg: The newspaper has...

The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to...

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Aldous Huxley: Habit converts luxurious...

Aldous Huxley: Habit converts luxurious...

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Source: In...

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Edward Dahlberg: Utility is our...

Edward Dahlberg: Utility is our...

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother,...

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Anthony Burgess: Novelists are perhaps...

Anthony Burgess: Novelists are perhaps...

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has...

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