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1 I used to fear that I was so unsuited to your learning and wisdom.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
2 Miss Mills, with an air of superior wisdom and benevolence, smiled upon us.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
3 If I did any wrong, as I may have done much, I did it in mistaken love, and in my want of wisdom.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
4 I had been unhappy in trying it; I could not endure my own solitary wisdom; I could not reconcile it with her former appeal to me as my child-wife.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
5 Then,' said Mrs. Micawber, who prided herself on taking a clear view of things, and keeping Mr. Micawber straight by her woman's wisdom, when he might otherwise go a little crooked, 'then I ask myself this question.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
6 The amount of practical wisdom I bestowed upon Traddles in this manner was immense, and of the best quality; but it had no other effect upon Dora than to depress her spirits, and make her always nervous with the dread that it would be her turn next.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
7 Daybreak had come, and the sun was rising, when she said to me, how kind and considerate Mr. Copperfield had always been to her, and how he had borne with her, and told her, when she doubted herself, that a loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom, and that he was a happy man in hers.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
8 It was long before Mr. Dick ever spoke to him otherwise than bareheaded; and even when he and the Doctor had struck up quite a friendship, and would walk together by the hour, on that side of the courtyard which was known among us as The Doctor's Walk, Mr. Dick would pull off his hat at intervals to show his respect for wisdom and knowledge.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP