I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
— A Tale of Two Cities
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
Where this quote comes from
Pip, the narrator of Great Expectations, reflects on his childhood in chapter 7. Raised harshly by his older sister, he says children feel injustice more sharply than anything else. The injustice may be small, he adds, but so is the child and its world, and to a child a rocking horse stands as tall as a big Irish hunter.
Source: Great Expectations (1861), Chapter 7
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- “In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.”
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