“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
― Nicholas Nickleby
― Nicholas Nickleby
“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.”
― Nicholas Nickleby
― Nicholas Nickleby
“I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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