| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
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I have been through all the books in the basement. There is a Charles
Dickens quote that begins:
"whether I am the hero of my life or that station is held by
someone else, the future must show."
Does anyone out there know this quote and the work in which it
originally appeared?
Jeff
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| 777.1 | Was it the story about the rail guard? | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | Are you proud of Digital's computers? | Sun Feb 18 1990 22:41 | 22 |
G'day,
Sounds like it would have to be one of the books written from the first
person....
David Copperfield (as said to be his autobiography)
And I believe
Great Expectations, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas
Nickolby?
Maybe...
derek
On the other hand, there are other books such as The Coral Island that
use this kind of expression
derek
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| 777.2 | David Copperfield | TLE::RANDALL | living on another planet | Tue Feb 20 1990 20:09 | 6 |
It's the opening of David Copperfield.
Great Expectations opens with Pip musing over the graves of his
parents.
--bonnie
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