How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable thi…

Charles Dickens
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How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart. ✨ Charles Dickens Hard Times, W. W. Norton & Company
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