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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Approximate author period: c. 1841 AD · industrial
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- Charles Dickens
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- Approximate author period: c. 1841 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 503; printed byline: Dickens; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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