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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
magazines saws firsts
The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited. Chanel Iman
magazines television radio
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family. Bil Keane
magazines reality
The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and gone. Chris Johns
magazines events publicists
I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life. Diora Baird
magazines peak
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence. David Remnick
magazines time
I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously. Becki Newton
magazines opposite time travel
Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever. Paul Theroux
magazines world
I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world, Janice Dickinson
magazines skydiving planes
I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving. Bridget Hall
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. Charles Dickens
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. Charles Caleb Colton
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. Charles Caleb Colton
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer. Charles Caleb Colton
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. Charles Caleb Colton
literature
We are so very 'umble. Charles Dickens