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

Charles Dickens

Bleak House · 1853

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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 39.

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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, Mar. 1853, issue 13, ch. 39.

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