He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens · Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839), ch. 4

He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.

Charles Dickens · Bleak House (1852–1853), ch. 2

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Charles Dickens · The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837), ch. 8

I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.

Charles Dickens

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If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.” · King Henry IV, Part I, II, iv

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder · The Matchmaker (1954), act I

Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.

Winston Churchill · To Minister of Agriculture, 14 June 1941 (The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948))

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“He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.”

“He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.”

“"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."”

“I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.”

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

“Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.”