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Charles Dickens
There is a...
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
It's my old...
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be...
It was as...
It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
Source: Mr. Barkis, in...
There is a...
There is a dread disease which so prepares its victim, as it were, for death . . . a disease in which death and life...
That's rather a...
'That's rather a sudden pull up, ain't it, Sammy?' inquired Mr Weller. `Not a bit on it,' said Sam; `she'll vish...
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...
It opens the...
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry...
Accidents will occur...
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
Source: Mr. Micawber, in David...
Mr Podsnap settled...
Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a...
There's a Providence...
'There's a Providence in it all,' said Sam. `O' course there is,' replied his father with a nod of grave approval....
An observer of...
'An observer of human nature, sir,' said Mr Pickwick.
Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch....
There are strings...
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Source: Mr....
United Metropolitan Improved...
United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet and Punctual Delivery Company.
Do you spell...
'Do you spell it with a `V' or a `W'?' inquired the judge. `That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my...
It's always best...
It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass....
Anythin' for a...
Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.
Ven you're a...
Ven you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things you don't understand now; but vether it's...
Language was not...
Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon.
Source:...
A friendly swarry,...
A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
Wery glad to...
Wery glad to see you indeed, and hope our acquaintance may be a long 'un, as the gen'l'm'n said to the fi' pun'...