Quote by Walter Scott
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere worki

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? – Walter Scott

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Astrology
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. – Walter Scott

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Age
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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Age
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Other Quotes from
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. Thats the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. – William O. Douglas

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History

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. – Eddie Bernice Johnson

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History

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world. – Victor Cousin

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History

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. – Lech Walesa

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History

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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. – Gloria Steinem

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Marriage

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. – Paul Tillich

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Religion

When I go to a concert, I cant help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts. – Victoria Justice

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Hope

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy wont. – Hyman Rickover

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Politics