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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

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"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."

History

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Art

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

Family

"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."

Trust

"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."

Change

"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

Religion

"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."

Life

"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."

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"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."

Devil

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Susan C. Young, American Author

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"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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

Steven Magee, British Author

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