Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 23
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Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

It's calm and - what's that word again - critical! - no - classical, that's it - it is calm and...

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Charles Dickens: The man who...

Charles Dickens: The man who...

The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.

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Charles Dickens: I expect a...

Charles Dickens: I expect a...

I expect a judgment. Shortly.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Charles Dickens: God bless us...

Charles Dickens: God bless us...

'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Source: A Christmas...

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Charles Dickens: This is a...

Charles Dickens: This is a...

This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
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Charles Dickens: Stranger, pause and...

Charles Dickens: Stranger, pause and...

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush...

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Charles Dickens: All of us...

Charles Dickens: All of us...

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

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Charles Dickens: I am a...

Charles Dickens: I am a...

I am a lone lorn creetur,' were Mrs. Gummidge's words . . . 'and everythink goes contrairy with...

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Charles Dickens: They are so...

Charles Dickens: They are so...

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet...

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Charles Dickens: I am well...

Charles Dickens: 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...

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Charles Dickens: Oh the nerves,...

Charles Dickens: Oh the nerves,...

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures...

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Charles Dickens: Literature should stand...

Charles Dickens: Literature should stand...

Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Source: In Webster's...

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Charles Dickens: It was not...

Charles Dickens: It was not...

It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.

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Charles Dickens: I am quite...

Charles Dickens: 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...

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Charles Dickens: Uriah, with his...

Charles Dickens: Uriah, with his...

Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist...

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Charles Dickens: There are strings,'...

Charles Dickens: There are strings,'...

'There are strings,' said Mr Tappertit, `. . . in the human heart that had better not be...

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Charles Dickens: Man's courses forshadow...

Charles Dickens: Man's courses forshadow...

Man's courses forshadow certain ends; but if these courses be departed from these ends will...

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Charles Dickens: Skewered through and...

Charles Dickens: Skewered through and...

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

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Charles Dickens: Barkis is willin'....

Charles Dickens: Barkis is willin'....

Barkis is willin'.

Source: David Copperfield, Ch. 5
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7...

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