The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
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O Logic born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants come to the aid of thy master, Legislation.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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