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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
screw-ups screws i-can
There is only so much I can understand and not screw up. David Krumholtz
screwed-up
Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have. Antony Starr
screwtape-letters merciful
Pilate was merciful till it became risky. C. S. Lewis
screwtape-letters ought
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. C. S. Lewis
screwtape-letters eternity concerned
For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. C. S. Lewis
screws peg
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg. Anthony Trollope
screw-ups chance very-good
There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life. Brandon Thomas
screw wanna
Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show. Tyra Banks
screw takes
It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up. Nigel Lythgoe