Charles Dickens Short Quotes

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Death is Nature's remedy for all things...

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Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?

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There's light enough for wot I've got to do.

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Experientia does it — as Papa used to say.

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Let sleeping dogs lie—who wants to rouse 'em?

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We are all children of one great mother, Nature.

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That's the state to live and die in!... R-r-rich!

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'Don't you be afraid of hurting the boy,' he says.

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In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

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Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.

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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.

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People now call him the Golden Dustman [Mr. Boffin].

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You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.

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Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

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I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx [Lavvy].

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…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

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Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

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He is celebrated, almost everywhere, for his Deportment.
Caddy Jellyby of Mr Turveydrop

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A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together.

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My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

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He's tough, ma'am,—tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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It was as true…as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
Mr Barkis

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"Hard," replied the Dodger. "As nails," added Charley Bates.

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Marley's Ghost speaking:
I wear the chain I forged in life.

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What art was to the ancient world, science is to the modern.

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What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!
Miss Mowcher

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Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore.
Simon Tappertit

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Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

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