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[On the Poor and Giving]
Charles Dickens: Last night, I sat next to a gentleman at dinner, and he asked me in some fury why it was that our city should help those who do not help themselves.
Charles Dickens: By "those" he meant the many fallen women that we see around us every day, and their offspring, many who rely on this hospital today.
Charles Dickens: I replied, "The two grim nurses, poverty and sickness, bring these children before you and preside over their births, rock their wretched cradles, nail down their little coffins, pile up the earth above their graves. Their unnatural deaths form one third of the annual deaths in this great town."
Charles Dickens: "But what of God?" he piously replied.
Charles Dickens: "What Of him?" I said. "I feel sure God looks leniently on all vice that proceeds from human tenderness and natural passion."
Charles Dickens: I hope we will, too, and give generously tonight
Charles Dickens: Last night, I sat next to a gentleman at dinner, and he asked me in some fury why it was that our city should help those who do not help themselves.
Charles Dickens: By "those" he meant the many fallen women that we see around us every day, and their offspring, many who rely on this hospital today.
Charles Dickens: I replied, "The two grim nurses, poverty and sickness, bring these children before you and preside over their births, rock their wretched cradles, nail down their little coffins, pile up the earth above their graves. Their unnatural deaths form one third of the annual deaths in this great town."
Charles Dickens: "But what of God?" he piously replied.
Charles Dickens: "What Of him?" I said. "I feel sure God looks leniently on all vice that proceeds from human tenderness and natural passion."
Charles Dickens: I hope we will, too, and give generously tonight
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Good night ladies
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Good night
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Come on out
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Shilling a blow sir Shilling a blow
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I shall give you 5 if you go home safely tonight
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I can play house sir
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Want me as your wife sir
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Where is your mother
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Last night I sat next to a gentleman at dinner
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and he asked me in some fury
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why it was that our city should help those who do not help themselves
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By those he meant the many fallen women
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that we see around us every day
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and their offspring many who rely on this hospital today
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I replied
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The two grim nurses poverty and sickness
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bring these children before you and preside over their births
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rock their wretched cradles
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nail down their little coffins
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pile up the earth above their graves
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Their unnatural deaths form one third
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of the annual deaths in this great town
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But what of God he piously replied
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What Of him I said
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I feel sure God looks leniently on all vice
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that proceeds from human tenderness and natural passion
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I hope we will too and give generously tonight
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Movie Summary
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
