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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 231
AUTHOR: Charles Dickens (1812–70)
QUOTATION: “It’s very strange,” said Mr. Dick … “that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfectly clear.”
ATTRIBUTION: CHARLES DICKENS, David Copperfield, chapter 14, p. 124 (1950). This novel was originally published serially in 1849–1850.
SUBJECTS: Clarity