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Charles Dickens: Oh! I know...

Charles Dickens: Oh! I know...

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

Source: (Fanny Cleaver) Our Mutual...

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Charles Dickens: I only ask...

Charles Dickens: I only ask...

I only ask for information.

Source: (Rosa Dartle) David Copperfield, Ch. 20
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Charles Dickens: She's been thinking...

Charles Dickens: She's been thinking...

She's been thinking of the old 'un!

Source: (Mr Peggotty of Mrs Gummidge) David...

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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: There are books...

Charles Dickens: There are books...

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: France has neither...

Mark Twain: France has neither...

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals -- apart from these drawbacks it is a fine...

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Mark Twain: It takes your...

Mark Twain: It takes your...

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other...

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Mark Twain: My books are...

Mark Twain: My books are...

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

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Mark Twain: To do something,...

Mark Twain: To do something,...

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared...

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Mark Twain: Scientists have odious...

Mark Twain: Scientists have odious...

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of...

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Mark Twain: Don't you worry,...

Mark Twain: Don't you worry,...

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.'I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the...

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Mark Twain: A powerful agent...

Mark Twain: A powerful agent...

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words . . . the resulting...

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Mark Twain: All I say...

Mark Twain: All I say...

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's...

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Mark Twain: An experienced, industrious,...

Mark Twain: An experienced, industrious,...

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: After a few...

Mark Twain: After a few...

After a few months' acquaintance with European coffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to...

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Mark Twain: By his father...

Mark Twain: By his father...

By his father he is English, by his mother he is American -- to my mind the blend which makes the perfect...

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Mark Twain: Few sinners have...

Mark Twain: Few sinners have...

Few sinners have been saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Humor is the...

Mark Twain: Humor is the...

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing, after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our...

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Mark Twain: Human nature is...

Mark Twain: Human nature is...

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for...

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Mark Twain: Nothing that grieves...

Mark Twain: Nothing that grieves...

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's...

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