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Nicholas Nickleby, or The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, is the third novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. The character of Nickleby is a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies.
“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”
“Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.”
“One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
“It is a hopeless endeavour to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.”
“It will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature [...] are among its worst and least pleasant samples.”
“Look to yourself, and heed this warning that I give you! Your day is past, and night is coming on.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.