# Quote — Charles Dickens, Bleak House

> “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

- Author: [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md)
- Book: [Bleak House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house/i-only-ask

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> “Don’t you be afraid of hurting the boy,” he says.

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> “It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.”

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> “Never have a mission, my dear child.”

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