Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (1838)

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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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