How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness,…

Charles Dickens
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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen! ✨ Charles Dickens (1868). Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations, p.193
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