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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist · 1837

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Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 10.

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Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, July 1837, issue 5, ch. 10.

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