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David Copperfield quotes

Charles Dickens

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“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” 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
“It's in vain . . . to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to me, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“Never . . . be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices . . . and I can always be hopeful of you.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.” 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
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“you don't expect, as many elderly people do expect, old heads on young shoulders.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“trifles make the sum of life.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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