"Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own."
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
"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!"
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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.
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
"Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families."
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
. . . skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
"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?"
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
"I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world."
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
"What such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance."
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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.
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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