It's a very remarkable circumstance that poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

Charles Dickens · The source reads: “It's a wery remarkable circumstance...that poverty and oysters always seem to go together.”

I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

Charles Dickens · Estella to Pip in the ruined garden of Satis House, eleven years on, in the novel's final chapter; the sentence before says "suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."

She'll wish there was more, and that's the great art o' letter-writin'.

Charles Dickens · The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837), ch. 33, Sam Weller

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Charles Dickens · Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865), bk. III, ch. 5

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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

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I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

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“It's a very remarkable circumstance that poverty and oysters always seem to go together.”

“I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

“She'll wish there was more, and that's the great art o' letter-writin'.”

“We must scrunch or be scrunched.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”