"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."

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"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

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"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."

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"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."

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"The more you reason the less you create."

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