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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

• Farewell! Be the proud bride of a ducal coronet, and forget me! . . . Unalterably, never yours, Augustus.

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• Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry,prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.

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• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.

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• He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

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• He is celebrated, almost everywhere, for his Deportment.

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• He told me, only the other day, that it was provided for. That was Mr Micawber's expression, 'Provided for.'

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• He wos wery good to me, he wos!

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• He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water.

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• He'd make a lovely corpse.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• He's tough, ma'am, tough is J.B. Tough, and devilish sly!

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• Heads, heads, take care of your heads . . . Five children-mother-tall lady, eating sandwiches-forgot the arch-crash-knock-children look round-mother's head off-sandwich in her hand-no mouth to put it in-head of a family off-shocking, shocking!

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• Here's richness!

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• Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.

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• His 'owls was organs.

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• I am a lone lorn creetur . . . and everythink goes contrairy with me.

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• I assure you she's the dearest girl.

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• I call them the Wards in Jarndyce. They are caged up with all the others. With Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach!

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• I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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• I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.

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• 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.

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