"Please, sir, I want some more." -- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838) " "Bah,' said Scrooge. 'Humbug!' " -- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." -- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850) "Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the Court, perennially hopeless." -- Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853) "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." -- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." -- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

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