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Charles Dickens
When he has...
When he has learnt that bottinney means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows 'em. That's our system, Nickleby;...
Any man may...
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There an't much credit in...
Oh Sammy, Sammy,...
Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!
Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers,...
Take a little...
Take a little time - count five-and-twenty, Tattycoram.
Source: (Mr Meagles) Little...
The dodgerest of...
The dodgerest of the dodgers.
Source: (Mr Fledgeby) Our Mutual Friend, Bk IV. Ch. ...
Educating the natives...
Educating the natives of Borrioboola-Gha, on the left bank of the Niger.
Source:...
There might be...
There might be some credit in being jolly.
Source: (Mark Tapley) Martin Chuzzlewit,...
Papa, potatoes, poultry,...
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips; especially prunes and...
It couldn't exist...
It couldn't exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other.
Source:...
He has gone...
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
Source: (Mr Mantalini) Nicholas Nickleby,...
We've got a...
We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's...
Ain't I volatile?...
Ain't I volatile?
Source: (Miss Mowcher) David Copperfield, Ch. 22
-- Charles...
Cows are my...
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by...
Circumstances beyond my...
Circumstances beyond my individual control.
Source: (Mr Micawber) David...
I am a...
I am a demd villain! . . . I will fill my pockets with change for a sovereign in half-pence and drown myself in the...
Experientia does it...
Experientia does it - as papa used to say.
Source: (Mrs Micawber) David...
He had used...
He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.
Source: (Mr Blotton) Pickwick...
Say, like those...
Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his...
Not to put...
Not to put too fine a point upon it.
Source: (Mr Snagsby) Bleak House, Ch. 11
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He's a going...
He's a going out with the tide.
Source: (Mr Peggotty) David Copperfield, Ch. ...