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My dear Mr Holden,

  Thank you for your obliging message.  I am honoured that you
should be anxious not to sever links with the Inimitable.  My
amenuensis, the admirable Mr Holloway, will see to it that we
are not torn asunder.
  You ask if the world is now a better place than it was in
my day.  It is.  Ignorance, want and disease still spoil and
maim and kill, but not for lack of effort to thwart them.  The
effort, to be sure, is not always the right effort, or sufficient,
but it is made.  Few dispute that it should be.  Alas, what does
not improve is the people in the world.  When ignorance, want and
disease triumph, more often than not it is because kind thoughts,
brave actions are betrayed by idleness or indifference.

Faithfully yours,



Charles Dickens

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