A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned c…

Charles Dickens
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A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow. ✨ Charles Dickens (1866). Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, p.296
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