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Edward Dahlberg: It is very...

Edward Dahlberg: It is very...

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies,...

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Edward Dahlberg: Herman Melville was...

Edward Dahlberg: Herman Melville was...

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great...

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Edward Dahlberg: Ambition is a...

Edward Dahlberg: Ambition is a...

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is...

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Edward Dahlberg: We are ruled...

Edward Dahlberg: We are ruled...

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

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Edward Dahlberg: We can only...

Edward Dahlberg: We can only...

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the...

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Charles Dickens: Train up a...

Charles Dickens: Train up a...

Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of...

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Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch....

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Charles Dickens: In this life...

Charles Dickens: In this life...

In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts.

Source: 'Hard...

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Charles Dickens: Subscribe to our...

Charles Dickens: Subscribe to our...

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral...

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Charles Dickens: It was a...

Charles Dickens: It was a...

It was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody'.

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Charles Dickens: I am always...

Charles Dickens: I am always...

I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the...

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Charles Dickens: I want to...

Charles Dickens: I want to...

I want to know what it says . . . The sea, Floy, what it is that it keeps on saying.

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Charles Dickens: Battledore and shuttlecock's...

Charles Dickens: Battledore and shuttlecock's...

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which...

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Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Source: (Sam Weller) Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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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: Rather a tough...

Charles Dickens: Rather a tough...

Rather a tough customer in argeyment, Joe, if anybody was to try and tackle him.

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Charles Dickens: The man who...

Charles Dickens: The man who...

The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.

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Charles Dickens: They are so...

Charles Dickens: They are so...

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet...

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George Eliot: Our words have...

George Eliot: Our words have...

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3,...

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George Eliot: And when a...

George Eliot: And when a...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...

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