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David Copperfield
Important Quotations Explained
2
. If
anyone had told me, then, that all this was a brilliant game, played
for the excitement of the moment . . . in the thoughtless love of
superiority, in a mere wasteful careless course of winning what
was worthless to him, and next minute thrown away . . . I wonder
in what manner of receiving it my indignation would have found a
vent!
4
. My
meaning simply is that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have
tried with all my heart to do well . . . I have always been thoroughly
in earnest.




