If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are g…

Charles Dickens
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven. ✨ Charles Dickens (1841). The Old Curiosity Shop, p.2, B Times
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