“Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.”

— Charles Dickens , book The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 12

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English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870

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