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Charles Dickens
Mrs Jellyby was...
Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa.
Source: Bleak House, Ch. 23
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It's calm and...
It's calm and - what's that word again - critical! - no - classical, that's it - it is calm and...
The man who...
The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.
I expect a...
I expect a judgment. Shortly.
Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
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God bless us...
'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
Source: A Christmas...
This is a...
This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.
Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
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Stranger, pause and...
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush...
All of us...
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
I am a...
I am a lone lorn creetur,' were Mrs. Gummidge's words . . . 'and everythink goes contrairy with...
They are so...
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet...
I am well...
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . .My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a...
Oh the nerves,...
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures...
Literature should stand...
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
Source: In Webster's...
It was not...
It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.
I am quite...
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores...
Uriah, with his...
Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist...
There are strings,'...
'There are strings,' said Mr Tappertit, `. . . in the human heart that had better not be...
Man's courses forshadow...
Man's courses forshadow certain ends; but if these courses be departed from these ends will...
Skewered through and...
Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
Barkis is willin'....
Barkis is willin'.
Source: David Copperfield, Ch. 5
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7...