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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.
satire hated shows
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Carroll O'Connor
satire humour enjoy
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. Dario Fo
satire pornography humans
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. Angela Carter
satire offence
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. Jonathan Swift
satire dunces
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
satire
This has a lot of satire in it. Katherine Hough
satire audience ifs
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. Gore Vidal
satire beats
Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon. Chris Rock
satire ill satirist
Satirists do expose their own ill nature. Isaac Watts