Great Expectations

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He took us home and hammered us. Which, you see, … were a drawback on my learning.

The Circumlocution Office2023-03-02T16:55:42+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Domestic Violence, Education|

Let him make a tool of me afresh and again? Once more? No, no, no.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-21T21:24:21+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Crime, Inequality, Revenge|

I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-20T21:49:14+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Guilt, Regret, Remorse, Shame|

We don’t know what you have done, but we wouldn’t have you starved to death for it.

The Circumlocution Office2023-05-05T00:16:33+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Compassion, Hunger, Kindness, Starvation|

Down banks and up banks, and over gates, and splashing into dikes, and breaking among coarse rushes: no man cared where he went.

The Circumlocution Office2023-05-05T00:14:04+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Chase, Hunting, Manhunt, Pursuit|

He’s a gentleman, if you please, this villain.

The Circumlocution Office2023-05-04T23:49:42+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Crime, Inequality|

All the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there.

The Circumlocution Office2023-04-29T16:17:37+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Abuse|

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-15T23:24:51+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Nose|

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-14T23:31:18+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Worry|

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

The Circumlocution Office2023-04-29T16:19:48+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|

What I suffered outside was nothing to what I underwent within.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-20T21:50:28+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Remorse, Torment, Worry|

However fast I went, I couldn’t warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-13T20:42:02+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Cold|

Something clicked in his throat as if he had works in him like a clock, and was going to strike.

The Circumlocution Office2023-02-16T09:21:18+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Emotions, Throat|

Instead of my running at everything, everything seemed to run at me.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T20:29:28+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Worry|

The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose I found to be quite awful.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T20:29:47+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Fear, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Worry|

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