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"Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?"

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About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was an English novelist and social critic of the Victorian era. His major works include Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in English literature.

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