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David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

“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.”

“My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!”

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

“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”

“Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.”

“Trifles make the sum of life. ”

“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.”

“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

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