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• I loved Estella… I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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• You wouldn’t mind being at once introduced to the Aged, would you?

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• Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer’s expectation.

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• It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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• I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.

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• Your sister is given to government.

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• I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality.

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• Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

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• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

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• Although it’s a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops.

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• I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

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• If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to ’em.

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• If it was ever intended that I should go across salt water, do you suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island?

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

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• That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignity and rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest health, and become developed in the most unlikely constitutions; is a fact as firmly established by experience as that we human creatures breathe an atmosphere.

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• Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.

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• Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions… Mrs General was not to be told of anything shocking. Accidents, miseries, and offences, were never to be mentioned before her. Passion was to go to sleep in the presence of Mrs General, and blood was to change to milk and water. The little that was left in the world, when all these deductions were made, it was Mrs General’s province to varnish.

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• As to marriage on the part of a man, my dear, Society requires that he should retrieve his fortunes by marriage. Society requires that he should gain by marriage. Society requires that he should found a handsome establishment by marriage. Society does not see, otherwise, what he has to do with marriage.

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• I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

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• There’s milestones on the Dover Road!

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Charles Dickens (425)

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

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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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