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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 213 Jahre, 1 Monat, 26 Tage oder 77.852 Tage alt.

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

• 'Bah,' said Scrooge. 'Humbug!'

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• 'Dear me,' said Mr Grewgious, peeping in, 'it's like looking down the throat of Old Time.'

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• '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,' replied Sam [Weller].

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• 'Eccentricities of genius, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick.

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• 'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

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• 'He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy,' said Estella with disdain, before our first game was out.

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• 'I was ruminating,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'on the strange mutability of human affairs.' 'Ah, I see - in at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, sir?' 'An observer of human nature, sir,' said Mr. Pickwick.

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• 'If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble . . . 'the law is a ass-a idiot.'

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• 'It is possible-that it may not come, during our lives . . . We shall not see the triumph.' 'We shall have helped it,' returned madame.

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• 'It is,' says Chadband, 'the ray of rays, the sun of suns, the moon of moons, the star of stars. It is the light of Terewth.'

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• 'It would make anyone go to sleep, that bedstead would, whether they wanted to or not.' 'I should think,' said Sam . . . 'poppies was nothing to it.'

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• 'It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass. 'Shout with the largest,' replied Mr. Pickwick.

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• 'It's very easy to talk,' said Mrs. Mantalini. 'Not so easy when one is eating a demnition egg,' replied Mr Mantalini; 'for the yolk runs down the waistcoat, and yolk of egg does not match any waistcoat but a yellow waistcoat, demmit.'

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• 'Little to do, and plenty to get, I suppose?' said Sergeant Buzfuz, with jocularity. 'Oh, quite enough to get, sir, as the soldier said ven they ordered him three hundred and fifty lashes,' replied Sam. 'You must not tell us what the soldier, or any other man, said, sir,' interposed the judge; 'it's not evidence.'

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• 'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex of immensity.Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

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• 'Mrs. Harris,' I says, 'leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.'

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• 'Never . . . see . . . a dead postboy, did you?' inquired Sam . . .'No,' rejoined Bob, 'I never did.' 'No!' rejoined Sam triumphantly. 'Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that's a dead donkey.'

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• 'Not to put too fine a point upon it'-a favourite apology for plain-speaking with Mr Snagsby.

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• 'Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing and 'rithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.

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• 'People can't die, along the coast,' said Mr Peggotty, 'except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in-not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide.'

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