Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one mans a blacksmith, and ones a whitesmith, and ones a goldsmith, and ones a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come. If theres been any fault at all to-day, its mine. You and me is not two figures to be together in London; nor yet anywheres else but what is private, and beknown, and understood among friends. It aint that I am proud, but that I want to be right, as you shall never see me no more in these clothes. Im wrong in these clothes. Im wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th meshes. You wont find half so much fault in me if you think me in forge dress, with my hammer in my hand, or even my pipe. You wont find half so much fault in me if, supposing as you should ever wish to see me, you come and put your head in at the forge window and see Joe the blacksmith, there, at the old anvil, in the old burnt apron, sticking to the old work. Im awful dull, but I hope Ive beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so God bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, God bless you!
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Charles Dickens was a 19th-century English writer and social critic. Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Friendship — Celebrating the bonds of loyalty, trust, and companionship