Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.Mr. Micawber
I read as if for life.David Copperfield
I am well aware that I am the umblest person going.Uriah Heep
Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!Mr. Micawber
The best of us has been in all weathers; he has been wet; and he has been dry; he has been warm, and he has been cold; and we are none the worse for it.Dan Peggotty
I never, in my life, did see such a sight as Peggotty, not drunk; but nursed up to be drunk, holding my mother by the leg.David Copperfield
Ride on mono-redeemer of happiness!Steerforth
It was a summer evening, old now, but vivid to me as if all the autumn leaves of my life had fluttered back to the green in that immortal August glow.David Copperfield
Like the satisfaction of a thirst long deferred, you are dearer to me to-day than you were yesterday.David Copperfield
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well.David Copperfield
Trot, my dear, another loan.Mr. Micawber
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.Mrs. Steerforth
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.David Copperfield