The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

Bleak House

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Law Lawyers

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Bleak House

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, Mar. 1853, issue 13, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 39.

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All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

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Time
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Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.

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The law may... Depend on what the judge has had for breakfast.

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Robert M. Hutchins
Language
English
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Hutchins, Robert M. "The Autobiography of an Ex-Law Student." The University of Chicago Law Review, Mar. 1934. Originally a speech at The Association of American Law Schools meeting. Dec. 1933, Chicago, IL, USA.