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| When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |  |
| I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| " . . . what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance." | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world." | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?" | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| . . . skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| " . . . accidents will occur in the best-regulated families . . ." | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| " . . . Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!" | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| " . . . Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own." | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
