"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
― Honore de Balzac
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― Honore de Balzac
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- "Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
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- "I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility."― James E. Rogers
- "But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions."― Jack Herer
- "Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions."― Albert Bushnell Hart