"I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too. " ch8
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Society and class
"I took the opportunity of being alone in the court-yard, to look at my coarse hands and my common boots" ch8
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Society and class
"I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach. " ch15
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Society and class
""Biddy," said I, after binding her to secrecy, "I want to be a gentleman.""
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Wealth
'Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so unassuming with it that I felt quite grateful to him for not being puffed up.' - Pip on Herbert
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Wealth
"It don't signify to you with your brilliant look-out, but as to myself, my guiding-star always is, 'Get hold of portable property.'" - Wemmick to Pip
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Friendship
'"You may be sure, dear Joe," I went on, after we had shaken hands, "that I shall never forget you." '
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Friendship
'As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighboring streets; but he was gone.' -Pip looking for Joe
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Friendship
'"Look'ee here, Pip. I'm your second father. You're my son—more to me nor any son. I've put away money, only for you to spend."' - Magwitch to Pip
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Friendship
'Herbert received me with open arms, and I had never felt before, so blessedly, what it is to have a friend.'
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Dreams & hopes
'While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.'
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Dreams & hopes
'Miss Havisham's intentions towards me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practise on'
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Dreams & hopes
"I am ashamed to say it," I returned, "and yet it's no worse to say it than to think it. You call me a lucky fellow. Of course, I am. I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am—what shall I say I am—to-day?"
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Dreams & hopes
'While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.'
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Love
"I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere. I have never had any such thing." - Estella to Pip
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Love
"Estella," said I, turning to her now, and trying to command my trembling voice, "you know I love you. You know that I have loved you long and dearly." - Pip to Estella
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Love
'The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible.' - Pip
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Love
' I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.' - Pip
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Criminality
'I cautioned him that I must hear no more of that; that he was not at all likely to obtain a pardon; that he was expatriated for the term of his natural life; and that his presenting himself in this country would be an act of felony' - Jaggers on MW
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Criminality
"I first become aware of myself, down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living. Summun had run away from me—a man—a tinker—and he'd took the fire with him, and left me wery cold." - Magwitch
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"I took the opportunity of being alone in the court-yard, to look at my coarse hands and my common boots" ch8
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