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" There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. "

Charles Dickens

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" I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond. "

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" Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. "

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" A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. "

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