Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill it's being roasted at a slow fire it's being stung to death by single bees it's being drowned by drops it's going mad by grains. (Charles Dickens)

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill it's being roasted at a slow fire it's being stung to death by single bees it's being drowned by drops it's going mad by grains.

Charles Dickens

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