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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."

"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."

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"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."

"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."

"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."

"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."

"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."

"When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public."
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