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“There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.”
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- Source:
- Plato. li.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e8f11f250cdc0380c964b1d1d2f290eb16c04fbf0e4be1111e6895e127cde63c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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