"Law is a bottomless pit." — John Arbuthnot
"Law is a bottomless pit."
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John Arbuthnot
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15 Quotes by John Arbuthnot
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one…
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Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
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The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one…
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge…
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery,…
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It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only…
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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
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He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
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The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and…
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More Bottomless Quotes
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
— Pema Chodron
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in…
— King James I
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Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest…
— Robert Peel
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation…
— Lance Armstrong
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
— John Arbuthnot
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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them…
— Daniel Quinn
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
— Joan Didion
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend…
— Michael Robotham
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had…
— Willa Cather
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Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current…
— Caterina Fake
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Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.
— John Bowlby
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