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Oliver Twist or (The Parish Boy's Progress) by Charles Dickens.
Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838.

Charles Dickens Quotes (A)

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"A boy's story is the best that is ever told."
 
"Accidents will occur in the best regulated families."
 
"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."
 
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
 
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
 
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
 
"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."
 
"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper."
 
"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."
 
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."
 
"Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse."

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