A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figurethe figure of The Reasonable Man.Alan Patrick Herbert
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