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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
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