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Charles Dickens1812–1870

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens on change

Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IX

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