Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MOREInstead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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