Great Expectations

"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."
- Great Expectations by: Charles Dickens; Chapter VIII

“‘Well, Pip,’ said Joe, ‘ be it so or be it son’t, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope! The king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ‘ed, can’t sit and write his acts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were an unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet-Ah!’ added Joe with a shake of the head that was full of meaning, ‘and begun at A too, and worked his way to Z. And I know what that is to do, though I can’t say I’ve exactly done it.’”
- Great Expectations by: Charles Dickens; Chapter IX

“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes I me. But, it is the same wit any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
- Great Expectations by: Charles Dickens; Chapter IX