Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war an…

Charles Dickens
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Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves. ✨ Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw, Charles Pears, Frederick Barnard (1912*). Old curiosity shop; coloured reproductions from ... drawing by Fred Barnard
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