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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Charles Dickens / A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
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"Please, sir, I want some more."
Charles Dickens / Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done."
Charles Dickens / A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
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"God bless us, every one!"
Charles Dickens / A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Public domain — A Christmas Carol
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"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
Charles Dickens / A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Public domain — A Christmas Carol
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Charles Dickens / A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
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"Please, sir, I want some more."
Charles Dickens / Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
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"A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!"
Charles Dickens / Nicholas Nickleby. Chap. xxxiv.
Nicholas Nickleby. Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"My life is one demd horrid grind."
Charles Dickens / Nicholas Nickleby. Chap. lxiv.
Nicholas Nickleby. Chap. lxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"In a Pickwickian sense."
Charles Dickens / Pickwick Papers. Chap. i.
Pickwick Papers. Chap. i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green."
Charles Dickens / Pickwick Papers. Chap. vi.
Pickwick Papers. Chap. vi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He 's tough, ma'am,--tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly."
Charles Dickens / Dombey and Son. Chap. vii.
Dombey and Son. Chap. vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"When found, make a note of."
Charles Dickens / Dombey and Son. Chap. xv.
Dombey and Son. Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it."
Charles Dickens / Dombey and Son. Chap. xxiii.
Dombey and Son. Chap. xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Barkis is willin'."
Charles Dickens / David Copperfield. Chap. v.
David Copperfield. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, all very good words for the lips,--especially prunes and prism."
Charles Dickens / Little Dorrit. Book ii. Chap. v.
Little Dorrit. Book ii. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT."
Charles Dickens / Little Dorrit. Book ii. Chap. x.
Little Dorrit. Book ii. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile."
Charles Dickens / Christmas Carol. Stave 2.
Christmas Carol. Stave 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain