“Remote from man, with God he passed the days;
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.”
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
The Hermit, line 5.
“Compeyson's business was the swindling, hand writing forging, stolen bank-note passing, and such-like. All sorts of traps as Compeyson could set with his head, and keep his own legs out of and get the profits from and let another man in for, was Compeyson's business. He'd no more heart than a iron file he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil afore mentioned.”
— Charles Dickens, book Great Expectations
Source: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 42
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