Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. ✨ Charles Dickens, Jill…

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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. ✨ Charles Dickens, Jill Kriegel (2010). Great Expectations: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism, p.173, Ignatius Press
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