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JESSICA: When did you last go to London?HUGH: When I read a Dickens novel. That was when I resolved never to travel there.

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That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

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(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character of Dick Swiveller, Dickens provided P.G. Wodehouse with pretty much the whole of his oeuvre. In David Copperfield, David's bosses Spenlow and Jorkins are what must be the earliest fictional representations of good cop/bad cop.

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And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces and prisons, she helps to inculcate the lesson that the wheel of Time is rolling for an end, and that the world is, in all great essentials, better, gentler, more forbearing, and more hopeful, as it rolls!

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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