“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.”

— Charles Dickens , book Bleak House

Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 1

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English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870

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