if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to…

Charles Dickens
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if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. ✨ Charles Dickens (2010). Bleak House, p.65, Broadview Press
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if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. ✨ Charles Dickens (2010). Bleak House, p.65, Broadview Press

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