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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
gentleman
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. Charles Dickens
gentleman cost pedants
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements. Charles Caleb Colton
gentleman knaves wealth
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. Charles Caleb Colton
gentleman deception fiction
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more." Charles Dickens
gentleman sometimes
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. Charles Dickens
gentleman kind
He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady. Caitlin Kittredge
gentleman principles looks
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. Caleb Cushing
gentleman may venture
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ... Catherine the Great
gentleman profanity swearing
When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. William Shakespeare
reason rhetoric foe
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. Charles Caleb Colton
reason
Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. Charles Spurgeon
reason event-horizon lacking
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Alan Moore
reason accepting
Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
reason take-me happens
Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here. Buddy Rice
reason shares sold
The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11. Jeffrey Skilling
reason violent expeditions
The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason. William Shakespeare
reason inequality seems
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true. William Shakespeare
reason
Love reasons without reason. William Shakespeare