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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.
classics | Published in 2011
Quotes
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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I only asked to be allowed to work for my bread. I only asked to be allowed to labour and to earn my food.
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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.
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I only ask to be allowed to work for my bread. I only asked to be allowed to labour and to earn my food.
hard worksociety