While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon…

Charles Dickens
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While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea. ✨ Charles Dickens (1996). Little Dorrit, p.320, Wordsworth Editions
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While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea. ✨ Charles Dickens (1996). Little Dorrit, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

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