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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. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
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A curtain raiser to one of the greatest characters in the history of literature. Reading this perhaps tell you how the characters are created and then built upon. One of the wonders of the maestro Charles Dickens, David Copperfield is the story of a boy's strides in his life after the second marriage of his widowed mother.