“Round the birth of "Pickwick" broke one of those literary quarrels that were too common in the life of Dickens.... He turned people into mortal enemies whom he might have turned very easily into immortal jokes.”

— G. K. Chesterton , Charles Dickens

Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"

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