Quote by Edmund Burke
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – Edmund Burke

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke

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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. – Edmund Burke

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. – Honoré de Balzac

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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. – Aristotle, Politics

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Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. – Judge Sturgess

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

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