| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16275 |
| QUOTATION: | One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist. Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 20, p. 246 (1839). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Dickens Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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