Smart citizens grow rich, and friendless victims smart and die, and are forgotten.
 Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). copy citation

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Author Charles Dickens
Source Martin Chuzzlewit
Topic victim forgetting
Date 1844
Language English
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“The earth, the air, the vegetation, and the water that they drank, all teemed with deadly properties. Their fellow-passenger had lost two children long before; and buried now her last. Such things are much too common to be widely known or cared for. Smart citizens grow rich, and friendless victims smart and die, and are forgotten. That is all. At last a boat came panting up the ugly river, and stopped at Eden. Mark was waiting at the wood hut when it came, and had a letter handed to him from on board. He bore it off to Martin.” source