“"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable," was his mildly cadaverous reply.”
Herman Melville book Bartleby, the Scrivener
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
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"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to."
“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
Herman Melville book Bartleby, the Scrivener
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
