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#1

“what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: parenting

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#2

“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

tags: biography, opening-lines

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#3

“I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: parenting

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#4

“The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: childhood, memories

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#5

“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: doing-good

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#6

“I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: love

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#7

“things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: life

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#8

“the sight of me is good for sore eyes”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: life, self-confidence

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#9

“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: disability, life

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#10

“have you taken leave of your senses”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: insanity

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#11

“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, David Copperfield

tags: friendship, quarrels

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#12

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: disparity, marriage, matches, matrimony, mind, purpose, suitability, unhappiness

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#13

“unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: servants

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#14

“why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: love

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#15

“I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#16

“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: experience, surprise

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#17

“what wind blows you here? nit an ill wind, I hope”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#18

“Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#19

“Least said, soonest mended”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#20

“has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you, if you tell me, without lying that somebody had cut it out”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: being-mean

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#21

“people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

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#22

“what you don't know, you don't miss”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

tags: unknown

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#23

“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

tags: home

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#24

“To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

tags: asking-favors, modesty

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#25

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

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#26

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

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#27

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21473 likes

#28

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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#29

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude

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#30

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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