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Jekyll, Dr.

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  1. The kind side of the split-personality title character in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Jekyll, Dr., and Mr. Hyde, the good nature and the bad struggling for the ascendency in the same person, generally to the defeat of the former.

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