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"Mend our law-books as we will, one is forced to confess that knaves are often seen in fine linen, and honest men in the most shabby old rags."
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"Mend our law-books as we will, one is forced to confess that knaves are often seen in fine linen, and honest men in the most shabby old rags."
"Mend our law-books as we will, one is forced to confess that knaves are often seen in fine linen, and honest men in the most shabby old rags."
"Hip-Hip-Hurrah!" Such was the sound that greeted our young traveler as he reached the inn door, -a sound joyous in itself, but sadly out of harmony with the feelings which the child sobbing on the tombless grave had left at his heart. The sound came from within and was followed by thumps and stamps, and the jingle of glasses
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, highly popular writer of his day.