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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens föddes den 7 februar 1812 och dog den 9 juni 1870 - engelsk romanförfattare.
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This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close. . . .

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Eccentricities of genius.

'Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you ain't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips...

Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

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

He had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'...

The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."

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