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Quotation from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
Great Expectations, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text)
After Estella's scorn at Satis House, Pip reflects on his sister's capricious discipline.
Citation: "In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice." — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text). (id great-expectations-q3)
Portrait: Greatexpectations vol1, Chapman & Hall, Public domain.
