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'He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself' (Chapter XXII)
'That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and how different its course would have been' (Chapter IX)
'I thought how Joe and my sister were then sitting in the kitchen, and how Miss Havisham and Estella never sat in a kitchen...' (Chapter IX)
'" here is the dinner, and I must beg of you to take the top of the table, because the dinner is of your providing"' (Chapter XXII)
'I told her I was going to be apprenticed to Joe, I believed; and I enlarged upon my knowing nothing and wanting to know everything, in the hope that she might offer me some help towards that desirable end' (Chapter XII)
'Miss Havisham and Estella and the strange house and the strange life appeared to have something to do with everything that was picturesque' (Chapter XV)
'Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise' (Chapter XXVII)
'...while you cannot possibly be genteel and bake, you may be as genteel as never was and brew' (Chapter XXII)
'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' (Chapter VIII)
'There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did' (Chapter XXXIV)
‘Soothed by my exertions, my method, and Herbert’s compliments, I would sit with his symmetrical bundle and my own on the table before me among the stationery, and feel like a Bank of some sort, rather than a private individual’ (Chapter XXXIV)
'In my confidence in my own resources, I would willingly have taken Herbert's expenses on myself; but Herbert was proud, and I could make no such proposal to him.' (Chapter XXXIV)
'"But as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did worse, and with my praises, and with my jewels, and with my teachings, and with this figure of myself always before her, a warning to back and point my lessons, I stole her heart away
'For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery' (Chapter XXXIV)
'I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates or reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.' (Chapter IV)
'So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt. I could hardly begin but Herbert must begin too, so he soon followed.' (Chapter XXXIV)
'Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose' (Chapter XXII)
'It was very aggravating; but, throughout the interview, Joe persisted in addressing Me instead of Miss Havisham' (Chapter XIII)
''What would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me so!"' (Chapter XVII)
'I went circuitously to Miss Havisham's by all the back ways, and rang at the bell constrainedly, on account of the stiff long fingers of my gloves' (Chapter XIX)
'I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach' (Chapter XV)
‘“Miss Sarah,” said Joe, “she have twenty-five pound perannium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious. Miss Georgiana, she have twenty pound down. Mrs.—what’s the name of them wild beasts with humps, old chap?”’ (Chapter LVII)
'That I could have been at our old church in my old church-going clothes, on the very last Sunday that ever was, seemed a combination of impossibilities, geographical and social, solar and lunar' (Chapter XXII)
'Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule' (Chapter XL)
'There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich' (Chapter XXII)
'My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property'. (Chapter XXIV)
'I was beginning to be rather vain of my knowledge, for I spent my birthday guineas on it, and set aside the greater part of my pocket-money for similar investment' (Chapter XVII)