This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
Charles DickensMy dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Charles DickensA man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
Charles DickensI took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.
Charles Dickens