Keep up appearances whatever you do.
Keep up appearances whatever you do.
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Chapter 11.
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- Here’s the rule for bargains — ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’ That’s the true business precept. - View Quote Details on Here’s the rule for bargains — ‘Do other men, for…
- Regrets,” said Martin, “are the natural property of grey hairs; and I enjoy, in common with all other men, at least my share of such inheritance. - View Quote Details on Regrets,” said Martin, “are the natural property of grey hairs;…
- 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, and then I will do what I’m engaged to do, according to the best of my ability. - View Quote Details on Leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don’t ask me…
- Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There an’t much credit in that. If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin to feel I had gained a point, Mr Pinch. - View Quote Details on Any man may be in good spirits and good temper…
- There might be some credit in being jolly with a wife. - View Quote Details on There might be some credit in being jolly with a…
- I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me. - View Quote Details on I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another…
- I could have bore it with a thankful art. But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive. No, Betsey!” said Mrs Gamp, in a violent burst of feeling, “nor worms forget! - View Quote Details on I could have bore it with a thankful art. But…
- With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. - View Quote Details on With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out…
- If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. - View Quote Details on If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be…
- He’d make a lovely corpse. - View Quote Details on He’d make a lovely corpse.
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