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Schriftsteller, "Oliver Twist", "Nicholas Nickleby", "David Copperfield", "A Christmas Carol" (England, 1812 - 1870).

Charles Dickens · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Charles Dickens wäre heute 212 Jahre, 7 Monate, 12 Tage oder 77.657 Tage alt.

Geboren am 07.02.1812 in Landport
Gestorben am 09.06.1870 in Gadshill Place
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• Lo, the city is barren, I have seen but an eel.

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• Look here. Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know.

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• Meaty jelly, too, especially when a little salt, which is the case when there's ham, is mellering to the organ.

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• Minerva House . . . where some twenty girls . . . acquired a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the Veneerings was spick-and-span new. All their furniture was new, all their friends were new, all their servants were new, their plate was new, their carriage was new, their harness was new, their horses were new, their pictures were new, they themselves were new, they were as newly married as was lawfully compatible with having a bran-new baby, and if they had set up a great-grandfather, he would have come in matting from the Pantechnicon, without a scratch upon him, French polished to the crown of his head.

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• Mrs Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but, as Mr Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, 'You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore, what does that signify to me!'

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• My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in The People governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

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• My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

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• My life is one demd horrid grind!

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• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

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• Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.

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• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another.

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• No remorse is as painful as futile remorse.

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• No, Betsey! Drink fair, wotever you do!

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• Nothing in the world is as catching as laughter and high spirits.

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• Now, what I want is, Facts . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

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• O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

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• Oh, Mrs Corney, what a prospect this opens! What a opportunity for a jining of hearts and house-keepings!

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• On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip; such is Life!
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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