Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Which this to you the true friend say. If you can’t get to be oncommon through going straight, you’ll never get to do it through going crooked. So don’t tell no more on ’em, Pip, and live well and die happy.’

Good point

However, they were grown up and had their own way, and they made the most of it.

impressibility of untried youth and hope.

We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition.

If we had been less attached to one another, I think we must have hated one another regularly every morning.

For, there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Day by day as his hopes grew stronger and his face brighter, he must have thought me a more and more affectionate friend, for I had the greatest difficulty in restraining my tears of triumph when I saw him so happy.

‘Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.’