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Charles Dickens1812–1870

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter XV

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