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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. Douglas Adams
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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. Simon Schama
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The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go. Ronald Frame
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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. George Saintsbury
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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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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters. Claire Tomalin
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Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
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Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw. Dazzy Vance
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We have to get more traffic, simple plays, with more pucks on the net. Simple shots can work sometimes. Mariusz Czerkawski
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We're just trying to get as much of shots as possible, Olli Jokinen
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The other, the Klingensmith's cat, he'd shot and buried,
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We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots. Mitchell Davis
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We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim. Scott Wilson
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We started off really sluggish. That shot got us going and started us rolling.
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I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot. Cecily von Ziegesar
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We're making shots and that's something that we haven't been able to do this year.
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We're going to give this a shot, and a shot is not one day. Ned Yost