Charles Dickens Quotes

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

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• Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.

  

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• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Papa
  • Prism
  • Good Words