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  • There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade -- all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade -- all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.

    Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841

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