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David Copperfield, Kapitel 53, Another Retrospect
Original engl.: "I […] feel the truth, that trifles make the sum of life."
David Copperfield

Der Raritätenladen (The Old Curiosity Shop), Kapitel 56 / Mr. Brass
Original engl.: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
Unsortiert

Letzte Worte, zu seiner Schwägerin Mrs. Hogarth, die ihn drängte sich hinzulegen, 9. Juni 1870; Mary (Mamie) Dickens: My Father As I Recall Him; Chapter VI
Original engl.: "Yes, on the ground."
Letzte Worte

David Copperfield, Kapitel 2, I Observe
Original engl.: "I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it."
David Copperfield

Schwere Zeiten, Fünftes Kapitel. gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&xid=4014&kapitel=6&cHash=31c32fc3c12#gb_found
Original engl.: "Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial. [...] what you couldn't state in figures, or show to be purchaseable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen."
Schwere Zeiten (Hard Times)

Schwere Zeiten, Erstes Kapitel, gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&xid=4014&kapitel=2&cHash=31c32fc3c1chap002#gb_found
Original engl.: "In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!"
Schwere Zeiten (Hard Times)

Große Erwartungen (Great Expectations), Kapitel 8
Original engl.: "In the little world in which children have their existence […], there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."
Große Erwartungen (Great Expectations)

Zur Strecke gebracht (Hunted Down), Kapitel II.
Original engl.: "A very little key will open a very heavy door."
Unsortiert

Quelle: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 2

All the year round, Vol.15 (1876), p. 281

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 40

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19

Hunted Down http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/hntdn10.txt (1859)

Tales, Ch. 3 : Sentiment
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 5

You know faces, when they are not brown; you know common experiences when they are not under turbans; Look at the dogs - low, treacherous, merderous, tigerous villians
I wish I were Commander in Chief over there ! I would address that Oriental character which must be powerfully spoken to, in something like the following placard, which should be vigorously translated into all native dialects, “I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late abominable atrocities"

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 34

Quelle: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 7

Master Humphrey's Clock, (1840) Vol. 1

Charles Reade, A Simpleton (1873)
Misattributed

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 14

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Chapter 41

Quelle: Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Ch. 48

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 11, 19, 22

American Notes online at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/675/pg675.html

The Chimes http://infomotions.com/etexts/literature/english/1800-1899/dickens-chimes-379.txt, Second Quarter (1844)

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 28

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 2

Quelle: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 17; Pip describes Molly, Mr. Jaggers' housekeeper

Quelle: Sketches by Boz (1836-1837), Ch. 1 : The Streets — Morning

Quelle: Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Ch. 21

Quelle: David Copperfield