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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
David Copperfield: Chapters 42 - 49

Chapter 42: Mischief

It was in teaching himself shorthand, David writes, that he developed the
spirit of perseverance, the habits of punctuality and diligence which led to
his future success. "Never to put one hand to anything, on which I could throw
my whole self; and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was; I
find now, to have been my golden rules."

Comment:

In this passage, Dickens drops the mask of David, and announces the
philosophy of unremitting toil that enabled a man of his humbled ...

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