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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.
lost-friendship sinister motive
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
lost
The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost. Charles Spurgeon
lost ability nations
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined. Alan Greenspan
lost left-behind behinds
And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by Chris Cornell
lost-friendship sides asphalt
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. Cale Yarborough
lost
When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning. David Castillo
lost price safety
When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver. Kyle Petty
lost said
You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness. Lewis Carroll
lost credibility virginity
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered. Charley Reese
ruined success
Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man. Benjamin Franklin
ruined
In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself. Haruki Murakami
ruined ifs
Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined. Simon Van Booy
ruined publishers
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes. Willa Cather