There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in th…

Charles Dickens
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. ✨ Charles Dickens (2016). The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, p.648, Pan Macmillan
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