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• if I rashly made any show of being unemployed, called her brother's attention to me by saying, 'Clara, my dear, there's nothing like work—give your boy an exercise'; which caused me to be clapped down to some new labour, there and then. As
• What is before you, is a fight with the world; and the sooner you begin it, the better.'
• The deep remembrance of the sense I had, of being utterly without hope now; of the shame I felt in my position; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that day by day what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, would pass away from me, little by little, never to be brought back any more;
• The first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as I look far back, into the blank of my infancy,
• I think the memory of most of us can go farther back into such times than many of us suppose;