Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
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"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
Charles Dickens
"It was as true " said Mr. Barkis ... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."
Charles Dickens
"Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
Charles Dickens
"Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster."
Charles Dickens
"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."
Charles Dickens
"He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two."
Charles Dickens
"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
Charles Dickens
"It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off."
Charles Dickens
"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
Charles Dickens
"If the law supposes that " said Mr. Bumble "the law is a ass a idiot."
Charles Dickens
"If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers."
Charles Dickens
"Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be."
Charles Dickens
"This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in."
Charles Dickens
"Once a gentleman always a gentleman."
Charles Dickens
"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."
Charles Dickens
"I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression."
Charles Dickens
"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it."
Charles Dickens
"It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Charles Dickens
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