Great Expectations

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Quotes from Great Expectations

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"My life has been a series of great expectations that have all turned to dust."
Pip
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"Do not judge me too harshly for what I have done."
Pip Kindness
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"I came to understand that true wealth lies not in money, but in the love and respect of others."
Pip Wisdom
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"She was everything I had ever dreamed of, and nothing of what I had imagined."
Pip Love
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"Time has a way of healing even the deepest wounds."
Pip Time
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"I have been a fool, but not the worst of fools."
Pip Wisdom
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"The truth, however bitter, is always better than a comforting lie."
Great-Expectations Jaggers Truth
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"I would give anything to undo the past."
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"She seemed to take pleasure in my discomfort."
Pip Relationships
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"I cannot live as I have been living. Something must change."
Pip Change
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"There is a justice in this world that will not allow such wrongs to go unpunished."
Great-Expectations Jaggers Justice
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"I had the strangest feeling that something was about to happen."
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"You have been the cause of all the sorrow and suffering in my life."
Estella Relationships
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"I must tell you the truth, whatever it costs me."
Pip Truth
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"Do not let us quarrel about it."
Herbert Pocket Friendship
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"I should have been the very last person on whom to test such hopes."
Pip Hope
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"It is of the utmost importance that you not tell a soul."
Great-Expectations Jaggers Truth
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"I have never been so happy as I am now."
Pip Happiness
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"She was the very centre and object of my life."
Pip Love
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"All the money in the world could not buy what I had lost."
Pip Money
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"I was always in love, and always shall be."
Pip Love
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
Great-Expectations Jaggers Knowledge
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"The more I knew of the world, the more I desired to go back to my village."
Pip
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"I had never thought of such a question until that moment."
Pip Wisdom
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"I felt that this was a time for subtlety, not strength."
Pip Wisdom
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"My dear Pip, we must have you out of this."
Herbert Pocket Friendship
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"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."
Pip Courage
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"I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape."
Pip Perseverance
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"She gave me her trust, and I betrayed it."
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"It may be that you will get some news of your patron."
Great-Expectations Jaggers Hope