At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought …

Charles Dickens
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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . . ✨ Charles Dickens (1858). A Christmas Carol, p.46
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