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 “For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of tha…” “To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I ca…” “Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own …” “they're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sel…”