“A word in earnest is as good as a speech”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“Life gave you problems. It was your responsibility to rise above them.”
― How I Met Your Brother
― How I Met Your Brother
“My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time . . .”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.”
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“. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”
― Dombey and Son
― Dombey and Son
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