“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.”

Source: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 4

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English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870

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