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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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Charles Dickens (15)

“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…”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Attraction, admiration, Love at First Sight, first meeting, bewitched

“Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Deep, Expressive

“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.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Goals, motivation, Thinking

“Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Goodness, Truth, Genuine

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, Love, Truth, Beautiful Quotes

“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Escapism

“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.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Fighting, Friendship, Expectations

“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Body, Mind, Mental Illness, Bodily Defect

“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Surprises, humanity, Expected

“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Past, present, Memories

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: actions, Thoughts, Reality

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Success, Punctual, determined, Concentration

“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.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Dedication, Devotion, Goals, Effort

“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: procrastination, Waiting, Time

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books