Quotes from Bleak Expectations

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Here are some particularly fine quotes from Bleak Expections:

[Mr. Sourquill is attempting to find his pen]
Lily Bins:	Is it a Gladstone bag?
Mr. Sourquill:	No, this is the much more exclusive Disraeli bag. As the great man once said: "When it comes to pockets, lay them on with a trowel"
[Mr. Sourquill rumages through his bag's many pockets but is unable to find his pen]
Sir Philip Bins:	Enough, I will take your bag and put it somewhere where the sun does not shine. Lily, take this bag and put it on a coach to Scotland!
Mr. Sourquill:	Phew
Sir Philip Bins:	Bags should be like women. Simple and with one lockable opening!

Here's Sir Philip on the subject of Victorian political correctness:

Of course, in these modern times of 1873, the, aheh, politically correct term is "lunatics". But the in those days we called them what they were: mentalists, nutjobs, lady o'minds, softheads and durbrains.