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«What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!»
Author: Charles Dickens
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gammon
«Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.»
«Philosophers are only men in armor after all.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«There's light enough for what I've got to do.»
Author: Charles Dickens
«It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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advises
«Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.»
«I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.»
«Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!»
«I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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American literature, brutal, foulest, hunt down, intolerant of, inveterate, Juvenal, Satirists, slander
«A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.»
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