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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
astonishment essentials unexpected
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty. Charles Baudelaire
astonishment
I am all astonishment. Jane Austen
astonishment attention graduates
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. Charles Darwin
astonishment gateways explanation
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco
astonishment silent handkerchiefs
He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief. Cassandra Clare
astonishment surprise should
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
astonishment perpetual
Live in a perpetual great astonishment. Theodore Roethke
astonishment capacity opposition
Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment. Thaddeus Stevens
astonishment aging
I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living. Enid Bagnold
said
Least said, soonest mended Charles Dickens
said
Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do. David Mitchell
said staring
I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me... Bo Burnham
said feels wells
I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do. David Hockney
said meadows grants
Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you. Audrey Meadows
said bargains
I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain. Aasif Mandvi
said helpless
I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. Arthur Golden
said
I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back. Billy Carter
said last-words
I've said all that I've had to say. Bill Hicks