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“There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: self-sacrifice

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“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.”
― Kathryn Lasky, The Journey

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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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