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Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens

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Jun 15, 2019 04:12PM

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“By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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“The meanest thing to which we bid adieu, Loses its meanness in the parting hour.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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“Fools will always break out o' bounds.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

tags: bessy, strike, to-margaret

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“It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

tags: changes, helstone

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“I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

tags: bad, bessy, margaret, north-and-south

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