“ 'It wasn't the wine,' murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. 'It was the salmon.' (Somehow or other, it never is the wine, in these cases.)”
― The Pickwick Papers
― The Pickwick Papers
“Mr. Johnson's character was not much more exceptional than his double chin.”
― Felix Holt: The Radical
― Felix Holt: The Radical
“Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.”
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“Mr Pickwick awoke the next morning, there was not a symptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, as Mr Bob Sawyer very justly observed, that there is nothing like hot punch in such cases; and that if ever hot punch did fail to act as a preventive, it was merely because the patient fell in to the vulgar error of not taking enough of it.”
― The Pickwick Papers
― The Pickwick Papers
“Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existance.”
― The Pickwick Papers
― The Pickwick Papers
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