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NOVELISTS > novelist, dramatist > Charles Dickens
Keep out of...
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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
Source: Mr. Krook reporting Tom Jarndyce, in Bleak House, ch. 5, 1852.
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.