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Charles Dickens
At Mr Wackford...
At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with...
Let us be...
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch....
There are only...
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Source:...
Keep out of...
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to...
Known by the...
Known by the sobriquet of 'The artful Dodger.'
Source: Oliver Twist, Ch. 8
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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....