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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on Boxin' Day.
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Oh, Mrs Corney, what a prospect this opens! What a opportunity for a jining of hearts and house-keepings!
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Chadband:
Why can we not fly, my friends?
[Mr Snagsby:]No wings.
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Leave the bottle on the chimleypiece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
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But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.
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"In case anything turned up," which was his [Mr. Micawber's] favorite expression.
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This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
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Mr. Dick had been for upwards of ten years endeavouring to keep King Charles the First out of the Memorial; but he had been constantly getting into it, and was there now.
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You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.
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I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.
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Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
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She means well, said Mr Jarndyce, hastily. The wind's in the east. It was in the north, sir, as we came down, observed Richard. My dear Rick, said Mr Jarndyce, poking the fire, I'll take an oath it's either in the east, or going to be. I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
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We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.
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Now, I ain't alone, as you may think I am. There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver. It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man. A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.
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It was a turkey! He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird! He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.
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When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.
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The unities, sir…are a completeness—a kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and time.
Mr Curdle
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
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Let sleeping dogs lie—who wants to rouse 'em?
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The have-his-carcase, next to the perpetual motion, is vun of the blessedest things as wos ever made.
Sam Weller
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He's tough, ma'am,—tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
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The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
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Born:
February 7, 1812
Died:
June 9, 1870
(aged 58)
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Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Known for:
Great Expectations (1861)
Oliver Twist (1838)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
Bleak House (1853)
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