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“ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. ”
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“ Charles Dickens was a champion of the poor and needy and an enthusiastic patron of Great Ormond Street Hospital in its early days ”
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“ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ”
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“ I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind. ”
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“ On the haggard face of every man (there was) a kind of horror, as if they had been secretly terrified. ”
Thinking about life: Cruel and unusual
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“ The system here is rigid, strict and hopeless solitary confinement. I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong (and that) those who devised this system of Prison Discipline do not know what they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged for years, inflicts upon the sufferers ... there is a depth of terrible endurance in it which no man has a right to inflict upon his fellow-creatures. I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain to be immeasurably worse that any torture of the body; and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity has not roused up to stay. ”
Thinking about life: Cruel and unusual
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