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• I’d better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!

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• ‘I feel it more than other people,’ said Mrs Gummidge.

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• I am a lone lorn creetur…and every think goes contrairy with me.

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• If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you’d form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

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• Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What’s-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his prophet !

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• When found, make a note of.

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• As to Mr Feeder, B.A., Doctor Blimber’s assistant, he was a kind of human barrel-organ, with a little list of tunes at which he was continually working, over and over again, without any variation.

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• She was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages for Miss Blimber. They must be dead—stone dead—and then Miss Blimber dug them up like a Ghoul.

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• Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books.

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• The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre.

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• Oh let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

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• Farewell! Be the proud bride of a ducal coronet, and forget me!… Unalterably, never yours, Augustus.

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• ‘Mind and matter,’ said the lady in the wig, ‘glide swift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.’

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• A lane was made; and Mrs Hominy…came slowly up it, in a procession of one.

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• We never knows wot’s hidden in each other’s hearts; and if we had glass winders there, we’d need keep the shutters up, some on us, I do assure you!

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• He’d make a lovely corpse.

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• She’s the sort of woman…one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

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• Gamp would certainly have drunk its little shoes right off its feet, as with our precious boy he did, and arterwards send the child a errand to sell his wooden leg for any  money it ’ud fetch as matches in the rough, and bring it home in liquor.

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• At the same moment a peculiar fragrance was borne upon the breeze, as if a passing fairy had hiccuped, and had previously been to a wine vaults.

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• Features are an index to the heart.

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Charles Dickens (425)

Birth:	7th February, 1812
Death:	9th June, 1870
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Novelist, Playwright, Writer

About

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, England. He was an English social critic, novelist, playwright and writer. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Dickens published more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books.

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