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pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby.

— The lawyer (narration) · The lawyer in Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)

Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men?

— The lawyer (narration) · The lawyer in Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)

Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!

— The lawyer (narration) · The lawyer in Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)

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Bartleby, the Scrivener

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