Quote by Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the bet

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

Other quotes by Robert Frost

Before I built a wall Id ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense. – Robert Frost

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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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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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. – H.L. Mencken

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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus, Annals

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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Once you start a working on something, dont be afraid of failure and dont abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. – Chanakya

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. – Isaac Rosenberg

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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesnt pay Smith. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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