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Charles Dickens
Minerva House was...
Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to...
What is the...
What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never...
Mr. and Mrs....
Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the...
Great men are...
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Source:...
It is a...
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Source:...
I only ask...
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Source: 'Bleak House'
--...
We cannot have...
We cannot have single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra...
The bearings of...
The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
Source: (Bunsby)...
There's light enough...
There's light enough for what I've got to do.
Source: (Bill Sikes) Oliver Twist,...
Dollars! All their...
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars....
In this life...
In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts.
Source: 'Hard...
Oh! I know...
Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.
Source: (Fanny Cleaver) Our Mutual...
Oh gracious, why...
Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?
Source: (Miss Miggs) Barnaby Rudge,...
Oliver Twist has...
Oliver Twist has asked for more!
Source: (Bumble) Oliver Twist, Ch. 2
-- Charles...
We know, Mr....
We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or...
Look here. Upon...
Look here. Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know.
I pity his...
I pity his ignorance and despise him.
Source: (Fanny Squeers) Nicholas Nickleby,...
Professionally he declines...
Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
Source:...
On the Rampage,...
On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip; such is Life!
Source: (Joe Gargery)...
Bah,' said Scrooge....
Bah,' said Scrooge. Humbug!
Source: 'A Christmas Carol'
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb...