We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive… — Charles Dickens
We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.
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Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list 'cos his mother's uncle's vife's grandfather vunce lit the king's pipe vith a portable tinder-box.
Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.
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