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Bleak House
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"Bleak House" Quotes

A legal case weaves through the lives of a wide cast of characters in this sprawling Victorian novel.

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Quotes

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

freedom

I only asked to be allowed to work for my bread. I only asked to be allowed to labour and to earn my food.

Charles Dickens

hard worksociety

I am the only child of a mother who died young, and I don't remember her. I am the only child of a father who turned his back upon me; and I have been reared in the knowledge that it is a part of my misfortune.

Charles Dickens

familymisfortune

I only ask to be allowed to work for my bread. I only asked to be allowed to labour and to earn my food.

Charles Dickens

hard worksociety