“What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!”

—  Charles Dickens, book The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 2

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