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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

"Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!"

"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."
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"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."

"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."
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