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Quotation from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

“Dear reader! It rests with you and me, whether, in our two fields of action, similar things shall be or not.”

Charles Dickens (spoken by Narrator)

Hard Times, Book the Third, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #786 text)

Portrait of Charles Dickens

In the final paragraph Dickens turns from his characters to the reader and asks for action rather than mere feeling.

Citation: "Dear reader! It rests with you and me, whether, in our two fields of action, similar things shall be or not." — Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book the Third, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #786 text). (id hard-times-q8)

Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.

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