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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Di... ...nts of deeds and papers, may be called the general registers of the Insect World), we find him making constant reference to an uncle, in respect of wh... ...in these pages, have still many counter- parts and prototypes in the Great World about us. At present it contents itself with remarking, in a general ... ...ding the back-door open, incontinently blew out the lighted candle held by Miss Pecksniff, and slammed the front-door against Mr Pecksniff who was at ... ..., of him who least deserves it. There would be madness, Tom!’ Mr Pinch had listened to all this with looks of bewilderment, which seemed to be in part... ...nswer to the simplest inquiry; though Mr Pecksniff could make out, by hard listening at the door, that they two being left together, he was talkative ... ...elf for this, and wondered how it was, the tumult swelled into a roar; the hosts of objects seemed to thicken and expand a hundredfold, and after gazi...