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I have known him come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.

With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.

'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.

Oliver Twist has asked for more.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. . . . . Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

When found, make a note of.

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm Charles Dickens in David Copperfield.

Some credit in being jolly.

Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.