Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right; which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope; so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart; that there is not an honorable man among its practitioners who would not give—who does not often give—the warning, ‘Suffer any wrong that can be done you, rather than come here!’

If all the injustice it has committed, and all the misery it has caused, could only be locked up with it, and the whole burnt away in a great funeral pyre,—why, so much the better for other parties than the parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce!

‘She’s Color-Serjeant of the Nonpareil battalion,’ said Mr Bagnet, looking at us over his shoulder, as he went his way also. ‘And there’s not such another. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.’