Victor Frankenstein, quoted by Robert Walton in "Letter 4"
Frankenstein (1818)
“We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.”
Source: Frankenstein
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Rights; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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