Charles Dickens quote about care from A Tale of Two Cities - second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
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second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
 Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). copy citation

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Author Charles Dickens
Source A Tale of Two Cities
Topic care help
Date 1859
Language English
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Weblink https://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/98-h/98-h.htm

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“A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by, some pains to drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank. He had a healthy colour in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
Completing his resemblance to a man who was sitting for his portrait, Mr. Lorry dropped off to sleep. The arrival of his breakfast roused him, and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chair to it:” source

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