We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time,…

Charles Dickens
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We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. ✨ Charles Dickens (1867). Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood]., p.198
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