Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir, replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."
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is one vast insane asylum. JAMES L. PETIGRU [...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said i... GEORGETTE HEYER Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, G.K. CHESTERTON Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at ... J.K. ROWLING To the best of my knowledge, sir," Benedict said in an apologetic tone, "no one has ever been able t... JIM BUTCHER We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and s... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, y... JAMES BUCHANAN I don't think I know your name.' 'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggin... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love. Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of you... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, sir, do you mean to remain there, commending my father’s taste in wine, or do you mean to ac... GEORGETTE HEYER How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. OSCAR WILDE How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say! OSCAR WILDE The life blood streaming thro' my heart,
Or my more dear immortal part,
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CHARLES DICKENS The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be... CHARLES DICKENS I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. CHARLES DICKENS Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares an... CHARLES DICKENS Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not d... CHARLES DICKENS Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays... CHARLES DICKENS Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages fr... CHARLES DICKENS He would make a lovely corpse. CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading... CHARLES DICKENS It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. 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copper. A smell like a washing-day! Th... CHARLES DICKENS Circumstances beyond my individual control. CHARLES DICKENS A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! CHARLES DICKENS God bless us every one. CHARLES DICKENS Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random
digits is, of course, in a state of s... CHARLES DICKENS "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a
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sheet of paper. CHARLES DICKENS There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
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relativism has set in so deeply that th... CHARLES DICKENS Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God. CHARLES DICKENS Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral
standards and values above the dis... CHARLES DICKENS The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. CHARLES DICKENS The dodgerest of all the dodgers. CHARLES DICKENS It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that
poverty and oysters always seem to go to... CHARLES DICKENS Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to
swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick... CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. CHARLES DICKENS In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi... CHARLES DICKENS Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that ... CHARLES DICKENS A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre... CHARLES DICKENS "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated.... CHARLES DICKENS Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last CHARLES DICKENS Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. CHARLES DICKENS It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain... CHARLES DICKENS Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge... CHARLES DICKENS Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d... CHARLES DICKENS Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o... CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! CHARLES DICKENS There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. CHARLES DICKENS I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. CHARLES DICKENS The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. CHARLES DICKENS The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. CHARLES DICKENS Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. CHARLES DICKENS Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. CHARLES DICKENS Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. CHARLES DICKENS We forge the chains we wear in life. CHARLES DICKENS 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. CHARLES DICKENS It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ... CHARLES DICKENS The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ... CHARLES DICKENS [Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee... CHARLES DICKENS In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,... CHARLES DICKENS The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth... CHARLES DICKENS Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli... CHARLES DICKENS Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. CHARLES DICKENS I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't... CHARLES DICKENS Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t... CHARLES DICKENS He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
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That creepeth o'er ruins old!
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