The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new l…

Charles Dickens
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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. ✨ Charles Dickens (1839). Oliver Twist, p.197
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