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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
one-thing i-can
The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott. David Trimble
one-thing better-than-you be-you
One thing nobody can do better than you is be you. Elizabeth Moon
one-thing one-thing-after-another
[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over Edna St. Vincent Millay
one-thing
One thing you cannot control is nature. Diana Ross
one-thing keep-going
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going. Andrew Mason
one-thing floats
I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other. Alex Ebert
one-thing
The one thing women love more than money is power. D. L. Hughley
one-thing
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you. B. B. King
one-thing
You cannot do only one thing. Garrett Hardin