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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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. – Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957

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Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. – JustinianI, Law Code, A.D. 535

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Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. – Erik Pepke

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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. – Welsh Proverb

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