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Quotation from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
Great Expectations, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text)
Pip addresses the reader about his first visit to Satis House, which changed the course of his life.
Citation: "Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text). (id great-expectations-q4)
Portrait: Greatexpectations vol1, Chapman & Hall, Public domain.
