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“I don’t suppose there’s a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There’s youth to the amount of eight hundred pound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I’d take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get ‘em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among ‘em as nothing should equal it!” - Charles Dickens
Attribution: Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist. Mr. Wackford Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 34, 437 (1839).

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