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  • Mr. Pecksniff is an exaggeration, and that no such character ever existed.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • Perhaps there never was a more moral man than Mr. Pecksniff: especially in his conversation and correspondence.

    Pecksniffery 2004

  • Mr. Pecksniff was a moral man: a grave man, a man of noble sentiments and speech...

    Pecksniffery 2004

  • Perhaps there never was a more moral man than Mr. Pecksniff: especially in his conversation and correspondence.

    Lance Mannion: 2004

  • Mr. Pecksniff was a moral man: a grave man, a man of noble sentiments and speech...

    Lance Mannion: 2004

  • The memory of these words lingered long in his mind, and both Captain Cuttle and Mr. Pecksniff quote them with excellent appropriateness.

    Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

  • Then Mr. Pecksniff, gently warbling a rustic stave, put on his garden hat, seized

    Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

  • Many of the characters resort to humming to conceal their temporary discomfiture, and perhaps no one ever hummed under more harassing circumstances than when Mr. Pecksniff had to go to the door to let in some very unwelcome guests, who had already knocked several times.

    Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

  • To have heartily disliked Mr. Pecksniff and to have loved the Cheeryble Brothers indicates no sagacity on our part.

    Humanly Speaking Samuel McChord Crothers

  • 'Socialist' as Mr. Pecksniff said 'Pagan', had the temerity to point out, that in things human and political as in mechanics, a chain was and could be no stronger than its weakest link.

    The Unity of Civilization Various

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