“Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.”

Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 47

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English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870

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