People
Pause you who read this, and think for a 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 one memorable day.
— Charles Dickens · Great Expectations
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Stop and picture the whole chain of your life, whether it's heavy iron or precious gold, thorny or sweet. This speaker says none of it would hold you now if one first link hadn't been fastened on a single day that turned out to matter.
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