“ One don’t see anything, one don’t hear anything, one don’t know anything ”
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1846). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | Dombey and Son |
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| Date | 1846 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/821/821-h/821-h.htm |
Context
“‘I am sure,’ said the gentleman, rubbing his forehead again; and drumming on the table as before, ‘I have good reason to believe that a jog-trot life, the same from day to day, would reconcile one to anything. One don’t see anything, one don’t hear anything, one don’t know anything; that’s the fact. We go on taking everything for granted, and so we go on, until whatever we do, good, bad, or indifferent, we do from habit. Habit is all I shall have to report, when I am called upon to plead to my conscience, on my death-bed.”
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