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| First Written | 1850 |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Origin | UK |
| My Copy | old clothbound hardback |
| First Read | November 15, 2014 |
David Copperfield
It's got some of the great Dickens characters, two of which I reference all the time: Micawber, the penniless optimist, and the hateful and perfectly-named Uriah Heep. Just say it out loud! yuur-eye-uh heeeep.
Noted on January 1, 2015
Copperfield was the first Dickens book I read, back in college. But it's so much better now - I think I get the rhythm and humor of Dickens better, and Copperfield is the best of Early Dickens.
Noted on January 1, 2015
He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that’s a merit, or whether it’s a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.
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Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade.
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“It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us."
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
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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.
Quoted on January 1, 2015