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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot. Charles Dickens
woe christianity fit
Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel Charles Spurgeon
woe-is-me tree fruit
Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree! Clive Barker
woe foolish
It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists. Christopher Paolini
woe bears midnight
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. Alexander Pope
woe traitor cases
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe William Shakespeare
woe pleasure
All love's pleasure shall not match its woe. William Shakespeare
woe-is-me hamlet-and-ophelia horatio
woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see William Shakespeare
woe
These times of woe afford no time to woo. William Shakespeare
woe-unto bird sorrow
Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds. William Shakespeare
paws mice ifs
You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws! Erin Hunter
paws fleas
Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray! Michael Buckley