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Quotation from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
“Bar said, there was a certain point of mental strain beyond which no man could go”
Little Dorrit, Book the First, Ch. 21 ('Mr Merdle's Complaint') (Project Gutenberg #963)
Society's lawyer offers his own diagnosis of Merdle's depression and dyspepsia to the Physician, followed by the Bishop's egg-and-sherry remedy.
Citation: "Bar said, there was a certain point of mental strain beyond which no man could go" — Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Book the First, Ch. 21 ('Mr Merdle's Complaint') (Project Gutenberg #963). (id little-dorrit-q5)
