Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room
to swing a cat there; but, as Mr. Dick justly observed to me,
sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, 'You know,
Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat.
Therefore, what does that signify to ME!'
David Copperfield
David on his accommodation, Chapter 35. |
I ate umble pie with an appetite.
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Uriah Heep, Chapter 39. |
Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?
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Uriah Heep, Chapter 39. |
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in
life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever
I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely;
that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly
in earnest.
David Copperfield
David as narrator, Chapter 42. |
I never could have done what I have done, without the habits
of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination
to concentrate myself on one object at a time.
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David as narrator, Chapter 42. |
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like
a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens,
and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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David as narrator, Chapter 43. |
It's only my child-wife.
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Dora tells David to say this to himself
whenever he is going to be angry with her, Chapter 44. |
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of
mind and purpose.
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Annie Strong, Chapter 45. |
Circumstances beyond my individual control.
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Mr Micawber, Chapter 49. |
A man must take the fat with the lean.
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Mr Omer, Chapter 51. |
Trifles make the sum of life.
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David thinks of every little trifle between
him and Dora, Chapter 53. |
I'm Gormed — and I can't say no fairer than that!
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Mr Peggotty, Chapter 63. |
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