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law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law would-be rays
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
undoing
I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years. Antonin Scalia
undone
I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him. Gertrude Stein
undoing
We do ourselves the most good doing something for others. Horace Mann
undone glorious
Most things remain undone. Glorious future! Ingvar Kamprad
undoing difficult
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. Kate DiCamillo
undone ruined
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] Plautus
undone old-woman displeasure
Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure. Victor LaValle