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1. "(He)lay tucked up warm ...immediately in front of the fire as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new."
What character in what Dickens' book is being referred to here?
2. "Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for, has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows -and china."
This "bon mot" is by Mrs Skewton. In which Charles Dickens book?
3. "Mr Squeers's appearance was not prepossessing. He had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs favour of two"
In what Dickens book does Mr Squeers appear?
4. "Mr Chadband is a large yellow man with a fat smile and a general appearance of having a great deal of train oil in his system"
In which Dickens book would we find this oily gentleman?
5. Which character in Charles Dickens' "Martin Chuzzlewit" holds this philosophy -
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that!"?
6. "It was true ... as turnips is. It was as true ... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them"
In Dickens' "David Copperfield" who uttered this profundity?
7. "Take another glass of wine and excuse me mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose!"
Who gave Pip in Dickens' "Great Expectations" this bit of social guidance?
8. Who, in Dickens'"Martin Chuzzlewit", said "There is no such passion in human nature as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen"?
9. "If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is"
What lovelorn gentleman makes this complaint in which Dickens' book?
10. Which Dickensian character makes this judgement
"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
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