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Quotes from Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty — Charles Dickens

1812–1870 England

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This gentleman’s stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (1841)

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