'That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with 

any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would 

have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or 

gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first 

link on that memorable day.'

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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