Everything in Eatanswill was made a party question. disputes and high words arose between them. Whenever the Buffs and Blues met together at public meeting.Did it ever strike you, on such a morning as this, that drowning would be happiness and peace?.Pickwick puffed, and the hat rolled over and over as merrily as a lively porpoise in a strong tide. Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.Kent, sir - everybody knows Kent - apples, cherries, hops, and women.Ah! you should keep dogs - fine animals - sagacious creatures - dog of my own once - pointer - surprising instinct - out shooting one day - entering inclosure - whistled - dog stopped - whistled again - Ponto - no go stock still - called him - Ponto, Ponto - wouldn't move - dog transfixed - staring at a board - looked up, saw an inscription - 'Gamekeeper has orders to shoot all dogs found in this inclosure' - wouldn't pass it - wonderful dog - valuable dog that - very.Most people are when they've little to do and less to get.' Philosopher, Sir?' 'An observer of human nature, Sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'on the strange mutability of human affairs.' 'Ah! I see - in at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Five children - mother - tall lady, eating sandwiches - forgot the arch - crash - knock - children look round - mother's head off - sandwich in her hand-no mouth to put it in - head of a family off-shocking, shocking! Heads, heads - take care of your heads!.Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.Chapter 1, referring to the word 'humbug'.He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, he suggests that he and three other 'Pickwickians' (Mr Nathaniel Winkle, Mr Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr Tracy Tupman) should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club. The novel's main character, Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, and the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836), better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens, containing a sequence of loosely-related adventures. Sam Weller and his father Tony Weller (The Valentine) The Goblin and the Sexton

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