# Quote — Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

> I took a good deal o’ pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for his-self. It’s the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

- Author: [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md)
- Book: [The Pickwick Papers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/the-pickwick-papers.md)
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> Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list 'cos his mother's uncle's vife's grandfather vunce lit the king's pipe vith a portable tinder-box.

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> Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair.

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> Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.

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