Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the prid…

Charles Dickens
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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 (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated), p.2066, Delphi Classics
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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 (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated), p.2066, Delphi Classics

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