Tongue —, well that’s a wery good thing when it…

Tongue —, well that’s a wery good thing when it ain’t a woman’s.

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Chapter 19.

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She knows wot’s wot, she does. - View Quote Details on She knows wot’s wot, she does.
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…
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…
Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on Boxin’-Day, or Warren’s blackin’, or Rowland’s oil, or some of them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy. - View Quote Details on Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle…
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home! - View Quote Details on Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the…
I am ruminating,” said Mr. Pickwick, “on the strange mutability of human affairs.” “Ah! I see — in at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, Sir?” “An observer of human nature, Sir,” said Mr. Pickwick. “Ah, so am I. Most people are when they’ve little to do and less to get. - View Quote Details on I am ruminating,” said Mr. Pickwick, “on the strange mutability…
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…
Never mind the character, stick to the alleybi. - View Quote Details on Never mind the character, stick to the alleybi.
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…