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Henry James Sumner Maine

"The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction."

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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"

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"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

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Amber Hurdle

"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"

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"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."

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Amber Hurdle

"Injustice in the end produces independence."

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Amber Hurdle

"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

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Amber Hurdle

"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ['Tolerance zero']"

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Amber Hurdle

"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had."

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Amber Hurdle

"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die."

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction."

Society

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing."

Art

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world."

History

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil."

History

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption."

Truth

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny."

Trust

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code."

World

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed."

Happiness

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people."

People

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Henry James Sumner Maine
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."

Law

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