Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it w…

Charles Dickens
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Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind. ✨ Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution, p.339, GENERAL PRESS
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