More quotes by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
"I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!"
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
"They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances."