Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked…

Charles Dickens
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Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. ✨ Charles Dickens (1853). Bleak House, p.71
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