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George Godwin.

George Godwin.The Circumlocution Office2018-03-12T16:47:55+00:00

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  • If they would rather die, they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
  • This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.
  • A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there.
  • Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.
  • I wear the chain I forged in life.
  • Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
  • Symbolism in A Christmas Carol.
  • I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future! The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
  • A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone.
  • Solitary as an oyster.

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  • I ran right up at it, and had my hand stretched out to pull the sleeve away, when it was gone. 31 Oct 2022
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  • The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog. 12 May 2022
  • The first of May! There is a merry freshness in the sound, calling to our minds a thousand thoughts of all that is pleasant in nature and beautiful in her most delightful form. 1 May 2022
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  • Gin-drinking is a great vice in England, but wretchedness and dirt are a greater; and until you impr... 5 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 105 votes, average: 8.60 out of 10 (8.60 out of 10)
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  • Some persons hold that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart. 42 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 1042 votes, average: 8.26 out of 10 (8.26 out of 10)
  • Injustice breeds injustice. 16 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 1016 votes, average: 8.25 out of 10 (8.25 out of 10)

On This Day during Dickens’s lifetime.

1837 Death of the Scottish poet Robert Nicoll (born in 1814).

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