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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

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H.L. Mencken

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Life
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Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories. – H.L. Mencken

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Taxes
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. – H.L. Mencken

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Women
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Other Quotes from
Justice & Law
category

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

Category:
Justice & Law

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. – Author Unknown

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Justice & Law

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. – Lao-tzu

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Justice & Law

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Justice & Law

Random Quotes

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. – Charles Ives

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Experience

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? – Mary Astell

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design

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

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The bold adventurer succeeds the best. – Ovid

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best