Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it. Author: Charles Dickens Copy Quote More from Charles Dickens “The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled an…” “So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to …” “Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone flo…” “But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown th…”