“Never have a Mission, my dear child.”
Charles Dickens book Bleak House
Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 30
“My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.”
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