I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in t…

Charles Dickens
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I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir. ✨ Charles Dickens (1866). Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, p.281
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