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Oliver Twist

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I thieved for you when I was a child not half as old as this!

— Nancy · Nancy in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838)

His name was Bob Fagin; and I took the liberty of using his name, long afterwards, in Oliver Twist.

— Charles Dickens, autobiographical fragment printed in John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I, Chapter II

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