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Quotation from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
“She took typhus-fever, and killed seventeen of you”
Past and Present, Book III, ch. II (Gospel of Mammonism) (Project Gutenberg #26159)
The Irish widow, refused by every charity in Edinburgh, proves her kinship by infecting her neighbours.
Citation: "She took typhus-fever, and killed seventeen of you" — Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book III, ch. II (Gospel of Mammonism) (Project Gutenberg #26159). (id past-and-present-q9)
