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Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. - H.L. Mencken

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. – H.L. Mencken

Other quotes by H.L. Mencken

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. – H.L. Mencken

Category:
Gratitude
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H.L. Mencken
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. – H.L. Mencken

Category:
Ghosts
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H.L. Mencken
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Justice & Law
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Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. – Judge Sturgess

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Justice & Law

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. – David Dudley Field

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Justice & Law

Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth

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Justice & Law

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. – Henry Ford

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Justice & Law

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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning. – Anne Sexton

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