Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than th…

Charles Dickens
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Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. ✨ Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mamie Dickens, Laurence Hutton (1893). The Works of Charles Dickens: Letters and Speeches
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