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Quotation from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
“A little more elbow-room is all we want here. We are quiet here; we don’t get badgered here”
Little Dorrit, Book the First, Ch. 6 ('The Father of the Marshalsea') (Project Gutenberg #963)
The drunken prison doctor, after delivering Amy, consoles the new debtor that the Marshalsea is a kind of freedom.
Citation: "A little more elbow-room is all we want here. We are quiet here; we don’t get badgered here" — Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Book the First, Ch. 6 ('The Father of the Marshalsea') (Project Gutenberg #963). (id little-dorrit-q3)
