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"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action."

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"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."
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