Did it ever strike you on such a morning as…

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

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Chapter 5.

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By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn’t got some small back parlour which he would call a study! - View Quote Details on By the by, who ever knew a man who never…
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. - View Quote Details on Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their…
It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, sir”, said Sam, “that poverty and oysters seems to go together. - View Quote Details on It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, sir”, said Sam, “that poverty…
We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction. - View Quote Details on We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute…
They don’t mind it; it’s a regular holiday to them — all porter and skittles. - View Quote Details on They don’t mind it; it’s a regular holiday to them…
Ven you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t understand now; but vether it’s worth goin’ through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter of taste. - View Quote Details on Ven you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good…
Kent, sir — everybody knows Kent — apples, cherries, hops, and women. - View Quote Details on Kent, sir — everybody knows Kent — apples, cherries, hops,…
Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir. - View Quote Details on Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.
Keep yourself to yourself. - View Quote Details on Keep yourself to yourself.
Whenever the Buffs and Blues met together at public meeting… disputes and high words arose between them… Everything in Eatanswill was made a party question. If the Buffs proposed to new skylight the market-place, the Blues got up public meetings, and denounced the proceeding; if the Blues proposed the erection of an additional pump in the High Street, the Buffs rose as one man and stood aghast at the enormity. - View Quote Details on Whenever the Buffs and Blues met together at public meeting…