More from Charles Dickens

  1. A man must take the fat with the lean.
  2. Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it me…
  3. There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
  4. He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may…
  5. My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted mys…
  6. 'Oh, dear no, miss,' he said. 'This is a London particular.' I had never heard of such a thing. 'A fog, miss,' said the young gentleman. 'O…
  7. I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate…
  8. I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!

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