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8 quotes from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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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 · David Copperfield in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (1850)

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.

— Wilkins Micawber · Mr Micawber in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (1850)

Barkis is willin'.

— Mr Barkis · Mr Barkis in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (1850)

Take care of him. He bites.

— The placard in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (1850)

Oh, no! I'm a very umble person.

— Uriah Heep · Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (1850)

Janet! Donkeys!

— Betsey Trotwood · Betsey Trotwood in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (1850)

But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD.

— Charles Dickens, preface to the Charles Dickens Edition of David Copperfield

It is wonderful to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age.

— Charles Dickens, autobiographical fragment printed in John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I, Chapter II

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