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“Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that by stepping aside for a moment a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place for ever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the outcast of the universe“.

Wakefield

“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections —not that they gape so long and wide, but so quickly close again”.

Wakefield

“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections —not that they gape so long and wide, but so quickly close again”.