| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16197 |
| QUOTATION: | Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Dickens (18121870), British novelist. Alderman Cute, in Third Quarter, The Chimes (1844). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Dickens Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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