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George Saintsbury Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
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Simon Schama My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.
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Douglas Adams One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.
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Jim Crace I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.
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Claire Tomalin As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
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Dazzy Vance Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.
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Goldwin Smith I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
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Claire Tomalin After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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Keitaro Matsuda The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.
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Anthony Chan The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.
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David Hewson I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'
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Frances Beinecke Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.
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Trip Adler I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
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William Gilmore Simms Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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Susan Newman There are any number of men who have this problem, too. But when you say who's more likely (to say yes), it's more likely to be women.
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Oscar Arias A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours.
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Mark McKinnon If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.
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Emma Watson I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.
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Vitruvius Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
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Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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Livy We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
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Sebastian Horsley The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.
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Richard Jaffe may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.
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Gerald Schatten Neither (the) results, nor we, support pet cloning.
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Quentin Kidd Right now, neither of the two sides seems to be willing to give in.
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Ernie Kovacs Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.
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Andrew Young To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
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Tom Lehrer I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.
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Tancredo Neves I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
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John F. Kennedy For of those to whom much is given, much is required.
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Ernie Allen The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.
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Azzedine Alaia I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'
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Sam Worthington I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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Sesil Karatantcheva I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.
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Houssaye Houssaye Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are