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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Use - to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France.

The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me.

...a gallon of condescension, upon everybody...

If man would help some of us a little more, God would forgive us all the sooner perhaps.' But

APPENDIX 4 THE THIEVES' LANGUAGE IN OLIVER TWIST

Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured

Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find it necessary to

Yes. I'm going to take a holiday. More than that; I'm going to take a walk. More than that; I'm going to ask you to take a walk with me.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease
a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Are tears the dewdrops of the heart?

Come in,
come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... there is a wisdom of the heart.

She indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. If

tergiversation and

I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book

We all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us ...

Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney!

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

Give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As

I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.

The beauty of the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either?

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

CHAPTER XVI RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY

He then begs to make his dear Twemlow known to his two friends, Mr. Boots and Mr. Brewer - and clearly has no distinct idea which is which.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

Can you - can you sit down?" asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully at him. "I can." "Do it, then." Scrooge asked

On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.

Will you never understand that I am incorrigible?

Eccentricities of genius.

(a specially oily old gentleman in a blanket, with a swan's-down tippet for a beard, and a web of cracks all over him like rich pie-crust),

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

Dickens writes that an event, began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted

Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!

bad lobster in a dark cellar. It

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Make the betht of uth; not the wurtht!

Could not have seemed to myself further from my hopes when I was nearest to her. The

Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

When should I awaken the heart within her that was mute and sleeping now?

I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Him to sea. The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

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Here is a new game," said Scrooge. "One half hour, Spirit, only one!

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.

Book the First - Recalled to Life

Trifles make the sum of life.

Come! Let us make that bargain. Think of me at my best, if circumstances should ever part us!

Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow

Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of.

The United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

...[their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.

Your sister Betsey Trotwood...

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

You'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together.

It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.

did not mind this

Blunt tools are are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable) ...

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

What I said had nothing to do with you. Why need you go trying on other people's hats?

accepting his patronage as he accepted every incident of the labyrinthian world in which he had got lost.

Unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum,

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646