There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain't for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on 'umbly, Master Copperfield!

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.