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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, 5 Tage oder 77.650 Tage alt.

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

• As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

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• As to marriage on the part of a man, my dear, Society requires that he should retrieve his fortunes by marriage. Society requires that he should gain by marriage. Society requires that he should found a handsome establishment by marriage. Society does not see, otherwise, what he has to do with marriage.

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• As to Mr Feeder, B.A., Doctor Blimber's assistant, he was a kind of human barrel-organ, with a little list of tunes at which he was continually working, over and over again, without any variation.

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• Barkis is willin'.

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• Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin' tobe pleasant.

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• Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

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• C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of the book, he goes and does it.

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• Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log, Expiring frog!

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• Charity and Mercy. Not unholy names, I hope?

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• Children experience nothing as acutely and bitterly as injustice.

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• Circumstances beyond my individual control.

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• Codlin's the friend, not Short.

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• Cows are my passion.

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• Dead, your Majesty, Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every Order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us, every day.

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

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• Education. - At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.

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• Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

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• Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

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• Experientia does it-as papa used to say.

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

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