
Dickens
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Dickens · 66 chapters
What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another.
I conceive that the sordid coarseness and brutality of Jonas would be unnatural, if there had been nothing in his early education, and in the precept and example always before him, to engender and develop the vices that make him odious.
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