Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, up…

Charles Dickens
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Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these. ✨ Charles Dickens (1867). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, p.125
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