v“Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.”
―from Chapter 1 of Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens
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“No time to spare”
I don’t know if anyone else has ever caught this, but in Great Expectations, Dickens repeats a phrase. I don’t know if he does it on purpose, or if it was purely an accident?
“I had no time for verification, no time for selection, no time for anything, for I had no time to spare.”
– Chapter 2, Great Expectations
and
“Towards the marshes I now went straight, having no time to spare.”
– Chapter 52, Great Expectations
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