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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.
decency people seems themselves time until
There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing. Mark Barrowcliffe
decency reflect
Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations. Lee Siegel
decency housing income low mission moderate people provide sanitary
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. Alphonso Jackson
decency discussed framework subject within
No one in the new administration will tell you this subject is taboo, ... It should be discussed in public, but within the framework of decency and ethics.
decency neither office running
Neither one of them had the decency to come into his office, after they had been running into the office all week. Neither of them had the decency to call.
decency
Have you no sense of decency? ... Have you no sense of decency at long last?
decency efforts faith fellow good human humbly inherently mankind reminded tested tremendous
My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians. Amanda Lindhout
decency hide spouse thy wife
Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride. Benjamin Franklin
decency integrity oval restore
restore decency and integrity to the Oval Office. George H. W. Bush