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Explore more quotes by John Mortimer
"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."
"The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed."
"I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."
"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
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"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."
"To care is our endless sense if duty."
"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"
"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."
"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."
"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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