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“Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.” (The Pickwick Papers Quotes)
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art.”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her ‘Ode to an Expiring Frog,’ sir.” (The Pickwick Papers Quotes)
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn’t.”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“The gout is a complaint as arises from too much ease and comfort. If ever you’re attacked with the gout, sir, jist you marry a widder as has got a good loud woice, with a decent notion of usin’ it, and you’ll never have the gout agin…. I can warrant it to drive away any illness as is caused by too much jollity.”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
“When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.”
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
