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“The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d656683960f03ed02754058c7bd2cee8f0f824b3791ce2d95f7a1d0d005f2f9f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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