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The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will read more
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes
hereafter, some of them in hell.
Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, read more
Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, go
Just as they're set, too fast or slow;
And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,
'Tis ten to one that side is cast.
