The Pickwick Papers Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject	Source
1	Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.	Dumb	The Pickwick Papers
2	Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and--we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble	Mortal	The Pickwick Papers
3	We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.	Appearance	The Pickwick Papers
4	. . . There lives at least one being who can never change--one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness--who lives but in your eyes--who breathes but in your smiles--who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for yo	Change	The Pickwick Papers
5	Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crum		The Pickwick Papers
6	The wind blew--not up the road or down it, though that's bad enough, but sheer across it . . . For a moment it would die away, and the traveller would begin to delude himself into the belief that, exhausted with its previous fury, it had quietly lain itse	Adversity	The Pickwick Papers
7	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.	Poetry	The Pickwick Papers
8	His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than span	Dress	The Pickwick Papers
9	Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small	Miscellaneous	The Pickwick Papers
10	Many eyes, that have long since been closed in the grave, have looked round upon that scene lightly enough, when entering the gate of the old Marshalsea Prison for the first time: for despair seldom comes with the first severe shock of misfortune.	Miscellaneous	The Pickwick Papers

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