Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (1838)

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'If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble…'the law is a ass—a idiot.'
Bumble

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Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

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The sun,—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man—burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

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But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

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

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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

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I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys.

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Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

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A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

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

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