Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · Frankenstein
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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden…”
- Author
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Work
- Frankenstein
- Year
- 1818
- Chapter / part
- Chapter 23
- Length
- 14 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #84
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