She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlo…
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David Copperfield
'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelis
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Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect.
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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.
My meaning simply is, that 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.
My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
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.