“ In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. ”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | Great Expectations |
| Topic | children injustice |
| Date | 1861 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm |
Context
“As I cried, I kicked the wall, and took a hard twist at my hair; so bitter were my feelings, and so sharp was the smart without a name, that needed counteraction.
My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.” source
My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.” source
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