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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861), Ch. 59

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About Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870

English novelist, author of "A Christmas Carol" and "Great Expectations".

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