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The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope, and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people waiting t...more

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...and who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or h...more

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He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever...more

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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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 pillo...more

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I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.

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You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."What do you make, Madam ?"Many things."...more

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When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of wha...more

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We are a bed business, and a coffee-room business. We are not a general dining business, nor do we wish it. In consequence, when diners drop in, we kn...more

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My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.

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Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity...more

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After that, he drank all the rest of the sherry, and Mr. Hubble drank the port, and the two talked (which I have since observed to be customary in suc...more

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She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous...more

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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination t...more

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She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in hers...more