It’s in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-10T12:04:02+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Memory| Read More
The clash and glare of sundry fiery Works upon the river-side, arose by night to disturb everything except the heavy and unbroken smoke that poured out of their chimneys. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-03T10:52:20+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Places), Industry, London| Read More
The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-03T10:56:07+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Places), London| Read More
A pair of such very stiff trousers that they would have stood quite as well alone, without any legs in them. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-03T10:57:53+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Person), Clothes, Trousers| Read More
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. The Circumlocution Office2020-07-13T22:13:44+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Bureauracy, Parliament, Red Tape| Read More
I have been often flogged myself. The Circumlocution Office2019-01-07T17:14:39+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Punishment| Read More
If you’re an eel, sir, conduct yourself like one. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-04T11:10:00+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. The Circumlocution Office2019-07-30T20:54:05+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Talking| Read More
My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-18T12:17:39+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Abandonment, Childhood| Read More
I have no doubt I shall, please Heaven, begin to be more beforehand with the world, and to live in a perfectly new manner, if -if, in short, anything turns up. The Circumlocution Office2019-08-06T17:45:59+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Hope| Read More
It was as true as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them. The Circumlocution Office2019-08-06T17:45:01+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Money, Tax| Read More
That slow agony of my youth. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-18T12:08:19+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Abandonment, Childhood| Read More
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-05T11:13:41+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Debt, Money| Read More
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. The Circumlocution Office2021-02-24T18:35:47+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Accidents, Family| Read More
My lamp burns low, and I have written far into the night; but the dear presence, without which I were nothing, bears me company. The Circumlocution Office2019-08-06T17:44:58+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Emotions| Read More
