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In law, nothing is certain but the expense. - Samuel Butler

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Science
Author
Samuel Butler
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It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Alcohol/Alcoholism
Author
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Truth
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
legal
category

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. – John Yoo

Category:
legal

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out theres a pretty good likelihood their case – no matter what its merit – will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. – Dennis Hastert

Category:
legal

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet. – Michael Jordan

Category:
legal

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. – Felix Adler

Category:
legal

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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. – Daniel D. Palmer

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Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. – Anna Pavlova

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Happiness

They are the abridgments of wisdom. – Sumner Ellis, Hints on Preaching: A Cloud of Witnesses, 1879

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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. – Andrew Jackson

Category:
Fear