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Mr Birling

"hard-headed business man", "unsinkable absolutely unsinkable", "nobody wants war", "there'll be peace and prosperity"," the next honors list","a man must look after himself make his own way","you dammed-fool","there'll be a public scandal"

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Mr Birling

"socialist or some sort of crank", " a fake" "a girl just died"

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Mrs Birling

"i couldn't imagine a real inspector talking to us like that", "Edna'll go, i asked to wait up to make us some tea", "i don't believe it. i wont believe it... ", "i wasn't the one who turned her out of employment-which probably began it all",

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Mrs Birling

"absurd in a girl in her position", "i did nothing i'm ashamed of ", " no of not, he is only a boy"," girls of that class", " i beg your pardon"

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Sheila

"But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.", "So I’m really responsible?", "I know I’m to blame – and I’m desperately sorry'", "I couldn’t be sorry for her.", "'I tell you – whoever that Inspector was, it was anything but a joke.',

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Sheila

"you began to learn something and now you've stopped your ready to go on in the same old way"

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Inspector

"'Two hours ago a young woman died in the infirmary'","'One person and one line of inquiry at a time'"'You used the power you had...to punish the girl', "'It's too late. She's dead' 'Yes, she's dead'"'There are millions and millions and millions of E

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Inspector

"We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.", "And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. "

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Eric

"'You don't understand anything. You never did'", "'the fact remains that I did what I did", "'You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely", " your not the kind of father a chap can go to is he is in trouble, " we helped kill her", "

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Sir Gerald croft

" i don't come into this suicide business", "i didn't feel about her as she felt about me", "I've never know an Eva smith"

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Themes

Class, responsibility, cause and effect, youth and age,

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