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My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
— Mar 01, 2026 05:44AM
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‘I'll tell you,' said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, 'what real love is. 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!’
— Mar 04, 2026 10:42PM
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Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over?' Biddy quietly asked me, after a pause.
'I don't know,' I moodily answered.
'Because, if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think—but you know best-that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think—but you know best—she was not worth gaining over.'
— Mar 02, 2026 10:41PM
'I don't know,' I moodily answered.
'Because, if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think—but you know best-that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think—but you know best—she was not worth gaining over.'
Tatevik
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Home had never been a very pleasant place to me, because of my sister's temper. But, Joe had sanctified it, and I believed in it.
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Within a single year all this was changed. Now, it was all coarse and common, and I would not have had Miss Havisham and Estella see it on any account.
— Mar 02, 2026 07:00AM
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Within a single year all this was changed. Now, it was all coarse and common, and I would not have had Miss Havisham and Estella see it on any account.
Tatevik
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Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts and vigils, and other peniten. tial performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.
— Mar 01, 2026 05:46AM
Tatevik
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Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice. I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me. I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.
— Mar 01, 2026 05:46AM
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In order, however, that our superior position might not be compromised thereby, a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, into which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped. I have an impression that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure.
— Feb 28, 2026 09:38PM
Tatevik
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It was much upon my mind (particularly when I first saw him looking about for his file) that I ought to tell Joe the whole truth. Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that if I did, he would think me worse than I was. The fear of losing Joe's confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney-corner at night staring drearily at my for ever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
— Feb 28, 2026 07:30PM
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I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference to Mrs. Joe, when the fear of being found out was lifted off me. But I loved Joe-perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him— and, as to him, my inner self was not so easily composed.
— Feb 28, 2026 07:30PM
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… because she had brought me up 'by hand.' Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
— Feb 28, 2026 07:25PM
