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Quotes from The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
* What is the odds so long as the fire
of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the
wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds
so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and
the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!
* She's the ornament of her sex.
* Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of
friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
* Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush
for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives
its title to an ugly and distorted image.
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* The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with
moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and
briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the
window.
* In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having
from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour
to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon
its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it
attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings
in which it commonly pursues its way.
* Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No
man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down,
his destiny must pick him up again.
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* It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying
compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled without any
expense; and that, as that useful member ought never to
grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case
of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be
always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of
improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches
and eulogistic expressions.
* In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
* That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken
next morning.
* If there were no bad people, there would be no good
lawyers.
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* "Did you ever taste beer?" "I had a sip of it once,"
said the small servant. "Here's a state of things!"
cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling.
"She never tasted it — it can't be tasted in a sip!"
* You will not have forgotten that it was a maxim with Foxey — our revered father, gentlemen — "Always suspect
everybody." That's the maxim to go through life with!
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