Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's b…

Charles Dickens
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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains. ✨ Charles Dickens (1853). Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.]., p.38
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