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«A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.»
«We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!»
«If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.»
«Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.»
«I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.»
«There is a dread disease which so prepares its victim, as it were, for death . . . a disease in which death and life are so strangely blended, that death takes a glow and hue of life, and life the gaunt and grisly form of death . . .»
Author: Charles Dickens
«Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«We cannot have single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra for it . . .»
Author: Charles Dickens
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