"It seemed to me that if the lawyers……" — R.D. Blackmore
"It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it."
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8 Quotes by R.D. Blackmore
R.D. Blackmore has 8 quotes on this site.
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Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at…
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Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is…
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'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about…
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Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I…
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...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I…
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Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
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May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long…
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More Duty Quotes
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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