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The Old Curiosity Shop is the fourth novel by English author Charles Dickens; being one of his two novels published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers reputedly stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.
“Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.”
“I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on.”
“That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.”
“"Time was," he said, "when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light."”
“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
“'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'”
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