Daily Dose of Dickens

‘How are you, ma’am? Wery glad to see you, indeed, and hope our acquaintance may be a long ‘un, as the gen’l’m’n said to the fi’ pun’ note’ - Sam Weller The Pickwick Papers, 1836-

"He who reads much and travels much sees much and knows much." Miguel de Cervantes

‘And if I might rise to order…I would suggest that “barbers” is not exactly the kind of language which is agreeable and soothing to our feelings…I believe there IS such a word in the dictionary as hairdressers’ - The Barber Master Humphrey’s Clock 1840

‘You think I’m a conjuror, sir. If I was, I should tell my own fortune—and make it’ - Quilp The Old Curiosity Shop, 1840- #Dickens

‘If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don’t look to me to put it together again’ - Mrs Joe Great Expectations, 1860- #Dickens

‘I ain’t,’ said the spinster aunt, her indignation getting the better of her determination to faint. ‘You are,’ replied Wardle; ‘you’re fifty if you’re an hour.’ The Pickwick Papers, 1836-          #Dickens

‘Get on your bonnet,’ repeated Wardle. ‘Do nothing of the kind,’ said Jingle. ‘..lady’s free to act as she pleases—more than one-and-twenty.’ ‘More than one-and-twenty!’ ejaculated Wardle, contemptuously. ‘More than one-and-forty!’

‘Oh you beauties! Never be a Dombey, won’t she, it’s to be hoped she won’t, we don’t want any more such, one’s enough’ - Miss Nipper Dombey and Son, 1846- #Dickens

Enjoying this very much 😊@Longshanks1307

‘How are you, governor?’ ‘I am happy to say, I am pretty well, sir,’ said the man, speaking with great deliberation, and closing the book. ‘I hope you are the same, sir?’ ‘Why, if I felt less like a walking brandy-bottle I shouldn’t be quite so staggery this mornin’,’ replied Sam

Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride. Anthony Bourdain

‘Splendid—capital. Kent, sir—everybody knows Kent—apples, cherries, hops, and women’ - Alfred Jingle The Pickwick Papers, 1836 #Dickens

‘I have nothing to say to you. If you get into debt, you must pay your debts, or take the consequences. You have no occasion to come here to learn that, I suppose?" - Mr Tulkinghorn Bleak House, 1852- #Dickens

‘There. It’s Dick Swiveller. Sit down, Swiveller.’ - Frederick Trent The Old Curiosity Shop, 1840- #Dickens

‘…I always did love poor dear pa better than all the rest of you put together, and I always do and I always shall!’ - Bella Our Mutual Friend, 1864- #Dickens

‘You are an old man, and I leave you to the grave. May every recollection of your life cling to your false heart, and cast their darkness on your death-bed’ - Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby, 1838- #Dickens

‘We should all try to discharge our duty, sir, and I humbly endeavour to discharge mine, sir; but it is a hard trial to betray a master, sir, whose clothes you wear, and whose bread you eat, even though he is a scoundrel, sir’ - Job Trotter The Pickwick Papers, 1836- #Dickens

‘London was a great wonder to us, and we were out for hours and hours at a time; seeing the sights; which appeared to be less capable of exhaustion than we were’ - Ether’s Narrative Bleak House, 1852- #Dickens

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‘An infant, a prattling child, dying in its cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those who loved it, and will play its part, through them, in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deepest sea’ - Schoolmaster OCS

@QuintenFrancois The banana zone 🍌

I need to know everything about the people still buying in. Where are they from? What drives them in life? What is their occupation? What's their IQ? #silver