“My experience teaches me, Lady Dedlock, that most of the people I know would do far better to leave marriage alone. It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles.”

— Charles Dickens , book Bleak House

Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Chapter 41

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English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870

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