-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?
-Because I'll never cry for you again. - Charles Dickens
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-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Charles Dickens was trying to ban workhouses his whole career.
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