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To be ruined your own way is some comfort. When so many people would ruin us, it is a triumph over the villany of the world to be ruined after one's own pattern.
To be ruined your own way is some comfort. When so many people would ruin us, it is a triumph over the villany of the world to be ruined after one's own pattern.
Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
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- Douglas Jerrold
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- Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1803–1857)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 231 · printed citation: Douglas Jerrold · subject: Ruin
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