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“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Love à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b69b9cdffa592c62d37e24a1111f4057bc433baefc6d6a0e5065691434cf9c4e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Mastering the lawless science of our law,-- That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.”
Alfred Tennyson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The gladsome light of jurisprudence.”
Sir Edward Coke
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Who to himself is law no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.”
George Chapman
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The laws are with us, and God on our side.”
Robert Southey
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.”
Daniel Webster
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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