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Classic Quotes by Charles Dickens
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
- Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
- Trifles make the sum of life.
- He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up…
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