Famous Quotes | He was a tough, burly...

He was a tough, burly thick-headed gentleman, with a loud voice, a pompous manner, a tolerable command of sentences with no meaning in them, and, in short, every requisite for a very good member indeed. - Charles Dickens
Attribution: Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist. Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 16, p. 192 (1839). Said of Mr. Gregsbury, M.P..

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