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Laws Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
- UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature…
- CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
- An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
- OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to…
- OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to…
- Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
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