Great Expectations

"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart"

"I am afraid I am not quite so gentlemanly as I could wish to be"

"I am not myself but a reflection of expectation."

"Kindness is the only true gentility."

"My childhood's despair could not survive her presence."

"I had thrown myself upon the breast of the river."

"The past cannot be altered."

"I was a blacksmith before I was anything else."

"Your second father is proud of you."

"I believe her to be without a heart."

"He lived only in himself."

"I should have been more cautious."

"She has never shown any weakness of character."

"I am proud of nothing but of being ashamed."

"The fortress of my own heart."

"I had never parted from her without reluctance."

"Patience is a virtue I have never possessed."

"She changed me entirely."

"I have been trying to learn to be a better man."

"Nothing was too bad for me now."

"All else is pretence."

"I am not what I was before."

"He was a secret burden on my mind."

"In my days of childhood I knew nothing of these hardships."

"Dreams come true if one is lucky."

"There's one thing you might rely upon."

"I have not been myself."

"The world was not made for us."

"Whatever I have said or done, has always been against my inclination."

"My father was a drunkard and a coward."