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Quotation from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens (spoken by Narrator)

Bleak House, Chapter XXXIX, Attorney and Client (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Charles Dickens

The narrator's ironic introduction to Mr. Vholes's chambers, where Richard is being drawn deeper into the suit.

Citation: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." — Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter XXXIX, Attorney and Client (Project Gutenberg text). (id bleak-house-q5)

Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.

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