Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me…

Charles Dickens
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ✨ Charles Dickens (1881). Great Expectations, p.525
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ✨ Charles Dickens (1881). Great Expectations, p.525

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