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

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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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I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio. 17 Sept. 1859, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Citation

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